Staff Software Engineer, Apple Ads
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One of tech's least standardized loops: you interview for a specific team, and every stage belongs to it. Recruiter/hiring-manager screen, one to three 45–60 minute Coderpad coding screens, a system design round shaped by Apple's reliability and privacy constraints, and a behavioral round — then a panel debrief. There is no central question bank; questions map to the team's real stack.
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At Apple, we believe in the power of technology to enrich people's lives. Everything we build is designed to empower people, including our advertising platform. We deliver ads in a way that benefits both customers and advertisers — helping people discover content, supporting creators, and protecting and respecting everyone’s privacy. Our technology makes advertising possible on the App Store, Apple News, Stocks, and Apple TV. We help developers and marketers of all sizes drive app discovery across the App Store. Our display ads on Apple News and Stocks let advertisers promote their products alongside trusted content in a brand-safe environment, while supporting publishers and journalists. Sponsorship integrations and experiences in live sports on Apple TV help advertisers connect with captivated audiences. Everything we do is with the unwavering commitment to privacy you expect from Apple. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.Description
Advertiser Services is a diverse, global, agile engineering team that moves smart and fast by consuming and optimizing readily-available technology, collaborating to improve and scale capabilities across businesses and use cases, and sharing our own innovative solutions so everyone can benefit. We are not constrained by organization structure and offer flexibility to work on a variety of backend systems, and we have fun doing it!Key Responsibilities
Build the foundational pieces of the next generation of Apple’s Ad Platforms Collaborate with product management to define external APIs for campaign management. Design and implement performant services and data pipelines. Build shared capabilities like Authentication, Authorization etc to support multiple internal and external partners Implement low latency, highly - available, high volume advertiser facing systems in a cloud environment. Engineer secure and scalable distributed data processing systems for campaign management.Minimum Qualifications
10 or more years of industry experience building scalable micro services or data driven platforms. Strong computer science fundamentals. Prior experience with Java/Scala/C++ or equivalent. Expertise in relational datastores ( e.g Postgres or Oracle) Expertise in NoSQL datastores ( e.g Cassandra or DynamoDB ) Proficiency in data processing technologies (e.g Kafka, Spark, Flink ) Experience crafting scalable micro services. Familiarity with cloud paradigms ( e.g AWS or GCP ) Proven ability to work on sophisticated problems and systems Strong problem solving and debugging skills. Have the ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams. A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.Preferred Qualifications
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