Software Engineer (Data Engineering)
At Apple, we focus deeply on our customers' experience. Apple Ads brings this same approach to advertising, helping people find exactly what they're looking for and helping advertisers grow their businesses.
Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass. Everything we do is designed for trust, connection, and impact: We respect user privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes-from small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.
Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy.
We are looking for an ambitious and versatile Software Engineer who will be a key member of our team, delivering data products that solve exciting business problems. Responsibilities range from designing and implementing core stream-processing capabilities, to supporting privacy preserving critical pipelines. You will have the opportunity to define, refine, and refactor approaches, designs, and architectures to meet the data engineering challenges we must solve. You will join a team of world-class data engineers with an appetite for applying leading-edge technologies to deliver extraordinary experiences to our customers. You will play a meaningful role building data products that deliver on Apple's privacy commitments and change the way advertising works with data. You will collaborate closely with the business to deliver relevant data and insight to inform our strategy and decisions.
You should have 3+ years experience in data engineering roles, ideally within the ads or media space. You will have an excellent understanding of scalable approaches and thrive working in Agile environments. The ability to be a good standout colleague under tight deadline constraints is key to success!
Description
At Apple Ads, we are building the next generation of privacy-focused advertising capabilities. As a part of the data organization, we work at the cutting edge of data engineering, machine learning, and privacy at Apple's scale. We are constantly developing data products to provide amazing user experiences and to drive value for developers and publishers. We are looking for a Software Engineer to build the future of our real-time stream processing systems. As a part of this team, you will
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- Engineer secure and scalable data processing systems across different execution contexts such as real-time, near real-time, and batch using Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra and beyond.
- Collaborate with a team of world-class data infrastructure engineers and product managers to apply leading-edge techniques and technologies that process petabytes of realtime streaming events.
You will join and contribute to a culture that emphasizes reliability, resiliency, extensibility, scalability, and productivity. We are one team, nurturing each other's growth and supporting each other in delivering for our customers and Apple.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong technical skills with proven experience developing and supporting scalable data infrastructure
Ability to communicate effectively with multi-functional technical and non-technical teams
Prior experience in advertising industry is a huge plus!
Minimum Qualifications
3+ years of industry experience building scalable data pipelines and data platforms
Strong computer science and data engineering fundamentals
Expertise in programming languages such as Python/Java/Scala
Expertise in NoSQL datastores (e.g. Cassandra, Keyspaces, ElastiCache)
Expertise in relational databases and SQL
Expertise in distributed systems and data processing technologies (e.g. Spark, Kafka, Flink)
Experience building and scaling systems on premise and in the cloud
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