Apple

Senior Software Engineer, Ads

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13 hours ago
Cupertino, CA, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Build OS daemons, frameworks, and SDKs that deliver ads across the Apple ecosystem.
  • Implement on-device business logic for fetching, ranking, and filtering ad candidates.
  • Enforce advertising policy, legal compliance, and privacy-by-architecture before partner apps render ads.
  • Design and operate high-performance client SDKs and libraries at scale, including caching, versioning, breaking-change management, and feature-flagged rollouts.
  • Own architecture and technical direction for complex, long-lived and legacy codebases.
  • Drive multi-team initiatives and set technical direction across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
  • Mentor and grow senior engineers and communicate technical decisions to non-technical partners.

Requirements

  • Deep, expert-level understanding of operating-system fundamentals, including process and memory management, scheduling, and file systems.
  • Extensive professional software development experience in a C-like language on systems with significant scale and reliability requirements.
  • Expert knowledge of cross-process communication and concurrent programming, including multithreading, synchronization, locking, and production race/deadlock analysis.
  • Experience designing and operating high-performance client SDKs or libraries at scale.
  • Experience owning architecture and technical direction for complex, long-lived codebases and driving multi-team technical initiatives.
  • Ability to operate with significant ambiguity, establish technical direction without a playbook, and align stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred experience includes ad technology, Apple-platform fundamentals, Swift, Objective-C, public APIs or SDKs for external developers, Core Data, libdispatch, XPC, Swift concurrency, daemons, telemetry and observability, client-server networking, and multi-team technical strategy.

Tech Stack

Objective-CSwift

Categories

Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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