Data Governance Engineer — Privacy-Focused Data Platforms

Apple; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Ads is building privacy-focused data governance at massive scale in Cupertino, CA. We seek a Data Governance Engineer to partner across engineering, product, privacy, and reliability teams to enforce data access, use, protection, minimization, and retention policies.

You will design autonomous governance agents, work with multi-cloud environments, and help ensure compliant data processing while advancing Apple’s trust and user privacy commitments.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with Python, Java, Rust or similar languages; data processing & API development.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and ML model deployment.

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

Software development

Python/Java/Rust

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

ML concepts

Education

B.S. in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Apple Ads is building privacy-focused data governance at massive scale in Cupertino, CA. We seek a Data Governance Engineer to partner across engineering, product, privacy, and reliability teams to enforce data access, use, protection, minimization, and retention policies.

You will design autonomous governance agents, work with multi-cloud environments, and help ensure compliant data processing while advancing Apple’s trust and user privacy commitments.