Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Data - Apple Ads
Cupertino
February 25, 2026
Apple Custom Ats
Summary
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 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.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of experience in Site Reliability 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, etc.
Big Data processing and storage systems (streaming and batch)
Strong expertise and experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
Experience designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven experience as a committer to open-source projects like Apache Spark, Flink, etc
Track record of driving automation, cost optimization and performance tuning at scale for data systems.
Experience leveraging ML and GenAI capabilities to improve infrastructure and Operational efficiency is a plus.
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.
