At Apple, we work every day to create products that enrich people’s lives. Our Ad 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. Today, our technology and services power advertising in Search Ads, App Store, and Apple News. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy.

We are looking for a Manager who can thrive in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities includes leading the Performance Test Engineering team test and tools development efforts for our complex backend software services, analytics pipelines, reporting portals, and APIs. You will define the Performance Strategy, and implement it across several domains and concurrent projects, setting baseline automation for performance measurements and analysis, mentor teams on performance best practices, lead the automation of performance monitoring and improving system performance, orchestrate performance tests across services, and assist in the creation of processes, tools, and procedures. You will also build the necessary tools to enable development teams to run performance tests within their software capabilities.

Performance testing engineering group is a SWAT team of Ads Platforms Engineering group responsible for building automation platform, performance engineering and other capabilities to improve quality of Ad Platforms offerings, at the same time strive for efficiency to reduce time to market for features that impacts the business bottom line. We operate at scale, think creatively, and build innovative technology frameworks to achieve quality goals. The performance engineering group works with multiple cross functional teams within Ad Platforms as well as working with various teams across Apple to deliver quality products and set quality standards in collaborative yet fast paced environment. As a member of Quality Engineering team you will be responsible for developing a comprehensive solutions and capabilities that helps deliver quality products efficiently and effectively.

8+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or MS in computer science or equivalent experienceAbility to effectively manage relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, development teams, and senior leadership.Proficiency in project management methodologies and tools. This includes skills in planning, scheduling, and executing performance testing projects, as well as tracking progress and managing resources effectively.Significant experience in software development in Java/Linux environment and Performance Engineering of distributed systems and web services.Deep understanding of factors influencing performance of software applications at multiple layers including services, databases, network, CPU and memory utilization, JVM and threads, query performance etc.Strong knowledge of web services architecture and distributed systems at scale, developing comprehensive strategy for performance testing, measurement, monitoring and analysis, baselining and performance tuning is a must.Strong knowledge of open source tools such as JMeter/Locust/Gatling/Tsung and ability to evaluate other technologies to build optimal tech stack for performance engineering.Strong Database knowledge in Oracle, Casandra and performance optimization techniques.Experience in cloud-based performance testing in Docker containers, AWS, Git repository, and resilience engineering.Ability to lead performance optimization efforts coupled with excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.Ability to work with open ended problems, adapt to changing technology landscape, and work under minimal supervision.Experienced in instilling defensive programming culture across a large engineering organization.