Data Governance Engineer: Privacy‑First, AI‑Powered Pipelines

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Relocation assistance

Education reimbursement

Employee stock plans

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Data Governance Engineer to join the Apple Ads Data Governance team in California. You will partner across engineering, product, privacy and reliability to ensure data access, protection, minimization, retention, and governance across massive data pipelines.

You will design autonomous governance agents for petabyte-scale pipelines, implement MCP integrations, monitor for anomalies, and help scale privacy safe data processing using ML/AI techniques.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of software development experience.
• Production experience in Python, Java, Rust or similar languages, with familiarity in data processing and API development.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms, including CAP theorem tradeoffs and basic ML model deployment.
• Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using Git, GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI, with experience in automated testing and deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog) and logging frameworks for production systems.
• Basic knowledge of machine learning concepts and MLOps, including data pipelines, model versioning, and experiment tracking tools.

Responsibilities

• Design autonomous governance agents for petabyte-scale data pipelines (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Hadoop) ensuring compliance and quality across all processing stages
• Build MCP integrations enabling automated policy enforcement, PII detection, and data quality validation across diverse storage and compute environments
• Partner with engineers and PMs to develop intelligent monitoring that detects anomalies, generates compliance reports, and auto-remediates issues
• Create reusable agent templates and workflows that adapt to changing regulations while maintaining performance and reducing manual compliance
• Contribute to distributed agent ecosystem emphasizing reliability through self-healing mechanisms, automated failovers, and dynamic resource allocation for scalability
• Use AI coding agents to accelerate implementation, test coverage, and debugging, validating every result for correctness, privacy, and cost

Skills

Python

Java

Rust

ML/AI applications

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Git

CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Data pipelines

MLOps

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Hadoop

Hive

Iceberg

Snowflake

Databricks

LangChain

LangGraph

REST/GraphQL

RabbitMQ

Vector databases

Job description

Apple is seeking a Data Governance Engineer to join the Apple Ads Data Governance team in California. You will partner across engineering, product, privacy and reliability to ensure data access, protection, minimization, retention, and governance across massive data pipelines.

You will design autonomous governance agents for petabyte-scale pipelines, implement MCP integrations, monitor for anomalies, and help scale privacy safe data processing using ML/AI techniques.