Job Details

SRE Manager - Ad Serving

Austin, Texas, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Aug 18, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200616528-0157

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.

We are seeking a senior engineering leader and experienced professional to lead our Site Reliability Engineering team. This team is responsible for Ad Serving infrastructure that serves as the front door of Apple Ads.

Description

You will be an accomplished builder and leader of teams looking to take on your next challenge. You know SRE and you know what it will take to run services at Apple scale with a high degree of operational precision. This role will position you to help craft the future of how we build and run our services on a global scale. You will have the technical skills to go deep and retain the ability to focus on higher-level business and product goals. We hire high quality leaders and engineers with a diverse set of experiences and abilities for positions on Apple.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE teams responsible for reliability and performance of ad-serving services.

• Leading and growing the engineers on your team

• Manage staging and production environments with goal of maximizing availability

• Promote observability of systems for monitoring, alerting, and metrics reporting

• Advocate best practices of reliability engineering

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years experience with large scale distributed systems

• Demonstrable success leading engineering teams - ideally SRE or Production Engineering

• Knowledge of core operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management

• Understanding of SRE principals, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts

• Strong leadership capabilities, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• 5+ years professional experience in an engineering leadership position

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent field with 10+ years of experience

• Experience managing infrastructure in AWS

• Prior experience in advertising industry is a huge plus.

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