Privacy‑Focused Data Governance Engineer

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Stock awards/RSUs

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a Data Governance Engineer to advance privacy-focused data management across Apple Ads.

You will partner across engineering, product, privacy and reliability to deliver data access, use, protection, minimization, retention, and governance execution at massive scale. You will design autonomous governance agents, enable policy enforcement, and monitor data health while ensuring privacy commitments and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of software development experience, including exposure to ML/AI applications.
• 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

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

ML/AI

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

DataDog

MLflow

Weights & Biases

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a Data Governance Engineer to advance privacy-focused data management across Apple Ads.

You will partner across engineering, product, privacy and reliability to deliver data access, use, protection, minimization, retention, and governance execution at massive scale. You will design autonomous governance agents, enable policy enforcement, and monitor data health while ensuring privacy commitments and cost efficiency.