Reliability Engineer - Data, Apple Ads
26 days ago Austin, TX
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- Industry: Technology: Manufacturing
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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, MLS Season Pass and Apple Maps. 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 sizes-from small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.
Description
As a Data Site Reliability Engineer in Apple Ads, you will focus on designing, building, and managing cloud-based systems and infrastructure that stores, process, transforms and analyzes large datasets. You will ensure data and corresponding infrastructure is accessible, reliable, and secure within the cloud environment, working with various Apple Internal and 3rd party cloud providers like AWS.","responsibilities":"Design, build and manage large scale distributed data systems on AWS using services such as EMR, EKS, MSK, Iceberg, etc.
Design and develop internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve data infrastructure reliability, cost-efficiency, and observability.
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams like advertising, machine learning and data platforms to define infrastructure architecture, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive production excellence.
Lead initiatives to eliminate toil via automation, improve efficiency and scalable deployment patterns.
Contribute to strategic decision making related to adoption of a multi-cloud echo system to maintain operational excellence on the current stack while still enabling the path for future innovation.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka) supporting petabyte-scale batch and streaming pipelines with high availability and low latency.
Track record owning reliability and performance of cloud-native data platforms (AWS/Kubernetes), including capacity planning, cost optimization, and incident response for production-critical systems.
Ability to partner with data science, ML, and product teams to define infrastructure standards, automate deployment/observability tooling, and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.
Track record of driving automation, cost optimization and performance tuning at scale for data systems.
Experience designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Experience driving adoption of new technologies and influencing designing of systems.
Strong programming skills on object-oriented, functional or procedural programming languages, preferably Java / Scala / Kotlin / Python
Experience designing and managing Infrastructure as Code with Helm and CRD, ensuring repeatable, secure, and scalable deployments.
Minimum Qualifications
2+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering with a strong focus on building, scaling and operating cloud based distributed data systems.
Proven expertise running cloud infrastructure built on managed services offered by cloud providers like AWS
Strong technical grasp and experience working on Open Source technologies designed for large scale data processing, like Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, Iceberg or other similar technologies
Strong expertise and experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
Experience leveraging ML and GenAI capabilities to improve infrastructure and Operational efficiency
Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, MLS Season Pass and Apple Maps. 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 sizes-from small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.
Description
As a Data Site Reliability Engineer in Apple Ads, you will focus on designing, building, and managing cloud-based systems and infrastructure that stores, process, transforms and analyzes large datasets. You will ensure data and corresponding infrastructure is accessible, reliable, and secure within the cloud environment, working with various Apple Internal and 3rd party cloud providers like AWS.","responsibilities":"Design, build and manage large scale distributed data systems on AWS using services such as EMR, EKS, MSK, Iceberg, etc.
Design and develop internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve data infrastructure reliability, cost-efficiency, and observability.
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams like advertising, machine learning and data platforms to define infrastructure architecture, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive production excellence.
Lead initiatives to eliminate toil via automation, improve efficiency and scalable deployment patterns.
Contribute to strategic decision making related to adoption of a multi-cloud echo system to maintain operational excellence on the current stack while still enabling the path for future innovation.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka) supporting petabyte-scale batch and streaming pipelines with high availability and low latency.
Track record owning reliability and performance of cloud-native data platforms (AWS/Kubernetes), including capacity planning, cost optimization, and incident response for production-critical systems.
Ability to partner with data science, ML, and product teams to define infrastructure standards, automate deployment/observability tooling, and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.
Track record of driving automation, cost optimization and performance tuning at scale for data systems.
Experience designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Experience driving adoption of new technologies and influencing designing of systems.
Strong programming skills on object-oriented, functional or procedural programming languages, preferably Java / Scala / Kotlin / Python
Experience designing and managing Infrastructure as Code with Helm and CRD, ensuring repeatable, secure, and scalable deployments.
Minimum Qualifications
2+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering with a strong focus on building, scaling and operating cloud based distributed data systems.
Proven expertise running cloud infrastructure built on managed services offered by cloud providers like AWS
Strong technical grasp and experience working on Open Source technologies designed for large scale data processing, like Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, Iceberg or other similar technologies
Strong expertise and experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
Experience leveraging ML and GenAI capabilities to improve infrastructure and Operational efficiency
Additional Information
- Posted: 26 days ago