Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Austin Metro Area, Texas, United States

Software and Services

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 sizesfrom small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.

Description

The Ad Delivery Services 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 a team of experienced engineers who are specializing in online services and backend jobs at scale using cloud-based technologies to return results within milliseconds going through terabytes of data. As a key contributor to this team, you will manage, design, and develop secure and scalable back-end systems. We are looking for a results-oriented and versatile leader who can excel in an Agile environment. 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 Serving platform. 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 or more 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 distributed systems like Cassandra, Solr, Kafka, Spark and / or Hadoop.
• Experience building AI / ML Platforms and A / B Testing is helpful.
• Experience building and scaling systems both on-premise and the cloud. Experience architecting for a hybrid cloud environment is helpful.
• Strong technical leadership skill, proven experience architecting, developing and deploying internet-scale, distributed and critical services.
• Experience working on complex problems and systems where scalability and performance are very meaningful (every millisecond counts).
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills are required. Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams.
• Results oriented and deadline driven.
• A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.

Preferred Qualifications

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.