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Software Engineer - Data Platform

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, CA$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Engineer to join Apple Services Engineering (ASE) to define the future of privacy-first instrumentation capabilities, designing, launching, and supporting data tooling and standards to answer high-level analytics questions at scale across ASE products and services.

Responsibilities

  • Design, and implement innovative Privacy-preserving systems to be used across ASE products and services
  • Design and develop frameworks and tools to collect analytics data from our products and services on all platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, web browsers, and third party platforms
  • Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for client instrumentation capabilities, creating detailed specifications that provide clear guidance to engineering, data science, and QA stakeholders
  • Manage the end-to-end design, launch, and support of new data infrastructure as needed to address complex analytics needs, including technical system design and implementation
  • Advise business and engineering stakeholders by serving as a data collection subject-matter-expert who understands how analytics-related asks will impact numerous server and client engineering systems
  • Lead discussions with privacy and legal teams to ensure that both Apple’s analytics needs are met and consumer privacy is protected
  • Ability to assist in the creation and enforcement of privacy and compliance policies and guidelines across ASE and Apple

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, technical product manager, or engineering-focused management consultant
  • Strong software design skills, coupled with a deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms
  • Comfort working with large, cross-functional teams spread across multiple locations
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills: The ability to translate ambiguous high-level analytics questions into concrete engineering asks
  • Strong prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously with overlapping deadlines
  • 5+ years of professional experience with some or all of the following: data or analytics systems, frameworks or toolkits, Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, TypeScript, React, Angular, Ember, Vue
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
  • Industry experience in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with differential privacy, private data-synchronization across systems and devices, data minimization, tokenization, cryptography

Skills

Required:Privacy-preserving data instrumentationData infrastructure design

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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