Senior Cloud Engineer - Apple Ads
Apple
Full-time
On-site
Austin, Texas, United States
The Reliability Engineering organization within Apple Ads is responsible for the scale, availability, cost-efficiency, and developer productivity of our advertising infrastructure. This is not a DevOps or CI/CD-only role—we’re looking for engineers who build strategic, long-term platform solutions.
As a senior technical contributor, you will:
- Define and evolve the infrastructure strategy for Apple Ads with a strong focus on developer velocity, scale, and cost-efficiency.
- Partner with Engineering Experience and Developer Platform teams to deliver paved-path infrastructure that enables fast and reliable development workflows.
- Evaluate and transform existing infrastructure, looking around the corner for inefficiencies, modernizing architectures, and championing long-term improvements across reliability, performance, and observability.
- Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives to raise the operational bar across systems and teams.
- Build tooling and automation frameworks for repeatable, secure, and scalable infrastructure delivery.
- Design and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and other frameworks.
- Drive alignment across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams—ensuring that technical decisions support both developer needs and business goals.
- Bring empathy to developer pain points and create infrastructure experiences that are simple, scalable, and delightful to use.
- Understand advertising business flows and contribute infrastructure insights that improve monetization, fill rate, and time-to-market for new ad formats.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience operating large-scale internet-facing distributed systems in production environments.
- Deep experience designing and running infrastructure in AWS (or equivalent public cloud environments) with production ownership responsibilities.
- Proven track record of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development using Terraform.
- Expertise with Linux-based systems, including a strong grasp of internals, networking, and systems programming fundamentals.
- Strong software development background ideally having worked as an application developer using languages like Python, Go, or similar.
- Experience with container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Nomad).
- Demonstrated ability to lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Excellent collaboration skills, with a proactive approach to partnering across teams.
- Strong ownership mindset, with attention to business goals, cost efficiency, and infrastructure scalability.
- Experience mentoring and developing junior or mid-level engineers.
- Previous experience in Ad Tech infrastructure at scale, including exposure to business metrics like fill rate, revenue per search, and latency-sensitive delivery.
- Experience designing developer platforms or paved paths for infrastructure provisioning, testing, and deployment.
- Hands-on experience building and running low-latency, high-throughput applications.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and reliability patterns.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with complex stakeholder landscapes.
- Familiarity with observability tooling, CI/CD best practices, and cost optimization strategies.
- Proficiency in additional languages such as Java, Go, or Rust.