Data Governance Engineer - Data Governance Engineering

The Data Governance Engineer role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement critical privacy safeguards, and data management controls.

• 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

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of software development experience, including exposure to ML/AI applications
• Production experience in Python or similar languages, with familiarity in data processing and API development
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms, including 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
• Intermediate knowledge of machine learning concepts and MLOps, including data pipelines, model versioning, and experiment tracking tools

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Stock options
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements

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.