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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Emeryville, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, User Authentication, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Distributed Computing Environment, Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Oracle (Applications), Data Processing, Apache Spark, Low Latency, Apache Flink, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines, Microservices
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/apple/staff-software-engineer-apple-ads-01ac75

## About the Role

Prior experience in advertising industry is a plus, 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.

## Description

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.


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