Lead Cloud Engineer, Ad Platforms

Summary

Posted: Sep 26, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200546511

At Apple, we work every day to build 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. Our technology and services power advertising in Apple News and Ads in the App Store. Our offline pipelines are highly performant, deployed to handle high-volume asynchronous events at scale, and set new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy. We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer passionate about creating reliable, predictable, and easy-to-use (simple) automation to provision cloud infrastructure for our developers. These tools will help accelerate the delivery of product features for Ad Platforms within the App Store, Apple News, and other platforms. As a technical lead, you will take ownership of a solution from beginning to end and deliver quality infrastructure as code that is developer friendly. Our team is responsible for driving the adoption of standard patterns for using the Cloud and bringing operational efficiency across cloud platforms. We are also responsible for enabling developers with the required infrastructure to test their code early in the software development lifecycle to reduce the number of bugs slipping into test/review environments. You will partner closely with Ad Platform's Developer Platform team to enable the delivery of tools and processes that provide engineers with an exceptional experience. You are respected as a thought leader who can influence, persuade, and direct engineering decisions across many teams. You will join a team of world-class data engineers with an appetite for applying innovative technologies to deliver extraordinary experiences to our customers. You will play a meaningful role in building data products that deliver on Apple's privacy commitments and change the way advertising works with data. You will be a leading voice in our technology strategy and its delivery, as well as developing and mentoring junior team members. You will collaborate closely with the business to deliver relevant data and insight to advise our strategy and decisions. You should have a proven track record in Cloud Engineer roles, ideally within the ads or media space. You will have an excellent understanding of scalable approaches and thrive working in Agile environments. Being a good standout colleague under tight deadline constraints is key to success!

Description

Create frameworks that enable developers to interact with Apple Cloud Infrastructure to test their code. Design our next-generation container platforms to run Ad Platforms services. Create tooling to enhance the observability of Ad Platforms systems. Develop expertise in Apple Infrastructure and standard methodologies, applying them to run world-class distributed systems. Design and develop tools to improve infrastructure reliability. Improve areas such as capacity planning, configuration management, and monitoring. Collaborate with engineering teams to improve on-call efficiencies, drive incident management, and conduct post-mortem analyses. Design and improve new and existing system architectures based on reliability and high availability principles, integrating extensive logging and observability. Establish robust deployment and delivery pipelines.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of extensive experience supporting internet-facing production services and distributed systems
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
• Proficiency in operating Linux-based systems, with a solid understanding of its internals
• Proficiency in container platforms like Kubernetes and Nomad
• Proficiency in operating infrastructures on AWS
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability with a creative and innovative approach
• Strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity with a desire to communicate and collaborate with teams
• Experience in mentoring and developing more junior engineers
• Self-motivated and eager to learn and grow

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of extensive experience supporting internet-facing production services and distributed systems
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
• Expertise in operating Linux-based systems, with a solid understanding of its internals
• Experience in container platforms like Kubernetes and Nomad
• Expertise in operating infrastructures on AWS
• Expert programming skills in Python required and Go

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,800 and $312,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
• Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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• Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure 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.

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