Senior Privacy and Systems Engineer - Apple Services Engineering (“ASE”), Analytics

Full-time - Senior

Cupertino, CA

About the position

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on an extensive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with dedication to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s outstanding integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, flexible, and multi-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here. The ASE Analytics & Data Engineering organization powers the analytics behind the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple Fitness+, Apple Books, Apple Wallet, iCloud, and more. Some areas where these analytics are used are to improve user experience, power features like Search and Recommendations, pay royalties, and improve Apple’s business, all while maintaining utmost user privacy.

Responsibilities

• Work as a privacy champion across ASE, helping the organization navigate through continuously evolving privacy policies, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Design and implement innovative Privacy-preserving systems to be used across ASE products and services.
• Educate teams throughout the organization (Engineering, Data Science, etc.) on privacy goals, initiatives, guidelines, and solutions.
• Review the design of new products and functions to ensure that they adhere to Apple’s high privacy standards and goals.
• Participate in discussions and decisions impacting Privacy across Apple.
• Mentor less-senior engineers.

Requirements

• Passion for solving customer and data privacy challenges to unlock key data and business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of privacy principles, data protection regulations, and technical expertise to implement Privacy-enhancing solutions.
• Collaborate both within the team and across ASE and Apple to embed Privacy principles into the design and architecture of products and features.
• Conduct privacy impact assessments for new and existing products and features.
• Ability to analyze system architectures to assess privacy exposures and suggest mitigations.
• Ability to assist in the creation and enforcement of privacy and compliance policies and guidelines across ASE and Apple.
• Strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail, capable of taking on loosely defined problems.
• Strong background in large scale, distributed systems with millions of users.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, engaging broadly with multi-functional teams of diverse skills and approaches.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with proficiency in more than one programming language (Java, JavaScript, C, etc.).
• 5+ years of professional experience assessing data privacy and compliance risks, recommending mitigating controls, and implementing solutions.
• MS or higher, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field.

Nice-to-haves

• Industry experience in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with differential privacy, private data-synchronization across systems and devices, HyperLogLog (HLL), data minimization, tokenization, cryptography.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• A range of discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
• Relocation assistance.