Senior Compliance Automation Engineer, ASE

Apple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Educational reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Compliance Automation Engineer in San Francisco to join the ASE Compliance organization. You will design and implement automation for governance, risk management, and compliance across large-scale cloud services, partnering with ASE engineers to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, end-to-end delivery, and collaboration across compliance and engineering teams to mitigate audit risk while supporting Apple’s scale and security posture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing software or automation.
• Strong software development skills in Python, Java, or Scala; code base is primarily Python.
• Ability to solicit requirements from end users and design software solutions using modern architectural practices.
• Track record of delivering automation solutions, ideally for security or compliance problems.
• Understanding of modern SDLC processes and tools and the ability to build an end-to-end SDLC pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Engage compliance engineers to identify inefficiencies and propose automation solutions.
• Build, deliver, and maintain full-stack compliance automation solutions including inventory, monitoring, alerting and remediation.
• Explore and apply AI to reduce manual effort and audit risk.
• Participate in engineering design and governance discussions with compliance implications.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Automation

Education

CS or Engineering degree helpful

Job description

Senior Compliance Automation Engineer, ASE

San Francisco, California, United States Software and Services

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas quickly become great products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish! The ASE Compliance organization has an immediate opening for a compliance automation engineer to help build and grow a global cloud services governance, risk management and compliance program, ensuring we meet our legal and regulatory obligations, while safeguarding the systems that millions of our users rely on every day. This is a hands‑on role where you will build tools in partnership with ASE compliance engineers to solve Apple’s unique compliance problems at scale.

Description

The ASE Compliance engineering organization provides compliance support to the Services product teams (e.g. App Store, Apple Music, iCloud, AppleTV+) as well as Apple’s internal cloud platform. As a compliance automation engineer, you will be responsible for identifying, designing, and implementing automation opportunities to streamline core compliance processes and driving down audit risk. This is a highly collaborative role that requires close partnership with both the compliance engineers and the broader ASE engineering organization in order to build solutions that can operate at Apple’s enormous scale. We are a small team with a big opportunity and we’re looking for motivated engineers who are able to own their end‑to‑end development process and take an incremental, modular approach to building large‑scale, long‑term solutions in a high‑paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Engage compliance engineers to identify operational inefficiencies and propose automation solutions to streamline compliance operations or reduce audit risk.
• Build, deliver, and maintain full‑stack compliance engineering solutions related to compliance inventory management, control monitoring, alerting and remediation processes, compliance lifecycle management, and other compliance processes, as needed.
• Aggressively explore and pursue opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence to reduce manual effort and audit risk.
• Participate in ASE engineering technical design and governance discussions that may have compliance implications.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing software or automation
• Strong software development skills in Python, Java, or Scala. Our code base is primarily Python, so the ability to understand and support Python is required.
• Ability to solicit requirements from end users and design software solutions to address those requirements using modern architectural practices
• Track record of delivering automation solutions, ideally to address security or compliance problems
• Understanding of modern SDLC processes and tools and the ability to build an end‑to‑end SDLC pipeline in order to reliably deploy and manage software solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leveraging emerging AI technologies or strong commitment to learn
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced dynamic environment and work on multiple unrelated topics in any given week
• Ability to develop relationships and work effectively with different teams at all levels and across functions relative to technical, policy, and business concerns
• Computer science or engineering degree is helpful, but not required.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.