Software Engineering Manager, Apple Ads

At Apple, we work every day to create products that enrich people's lives. Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Today, our technology and services power advertising in Search Ads in App Store and Apple News. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy.

Description The Ad Delivery team designs and builds best of breed systems for dealing with our complex and ever-growing platform needs that help deliver highly optimized advertising content to consumers. This manager role will lead of team of experienced engineers who are specializing in Indexing and Searching at scale using cloud based technologies to return results within milliseconds going through terabytes of data. The team is directly responsible for systems that are used by thousands of advertisers, publishers and developers and has high visibility in the mobile advertising space. We are looking for a results-oriented and versatile leader who can excel in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• As a key contributor to this team, you will manage, design and develop secure and scalable back-end systems for ad search and retrieval use case.
• You will also work closely with data scientists, leading a team of engineers to design, develop, and implement solutions, including using open source, and building tools, frameworks, and components that will enable us to improve and scale our Ad Delivery platform.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience building scalable micro services and data driven platforms.
• 5+ years management experience.
• Expertise in object oriented software development with a deep understanding of scalable indexing solutions systems like Solr, Elastisearch.
• Strong technical leadership skill, proven experience architecting, developing and deploying internet-scale, distributed and critical services.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or equivalent is required Master's degree preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in advertising industry
• Experience working on complex problems and real-time systems where every millisecond counts.
• A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.
• Experience building AI/ML Platforms and A/B Testing is helpful.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .