Senior Software Engineer; Analytics and Data Privacy

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what we can accomplish together. We're looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team, and if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you!

Our team, ASE Privacy Instrumentation, works with Apple's customer-facing app development teams to answer two key questions: what metrics should we collect to answer key business questions and how will we get those metrics from client devices? We design and develop the data schema and standards for metrics, as well as the tooling that enables teams to collect these metrics, all while keeping user privacy front and center.

By joining us your innovative ideas will impact billions of users worldwide and you will contribute to Apple’s magic.

We're looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of product management and engineering, helping us solve problems critical to unlocking business insights on Apple's most important customer software. In this role, you'll define the future of our privacy-first instrumentation capabilities while maintaining hands-on engineering involvement. This isn't your standard engineering role: while you will get the opportunity to write code for our tooling and data infrastructure, the bulk of your time will be focused on technical design, requirements gathering, and cross-functional collaboration.

You’ll be tasked with designing, launching, and supporting new data infrastructure products as necessary to answer high-level analytics questions at scale.

Your responsibilities will span the full software development lifecycle - from brainstorming, design and analysis to development, implementation and maintenance. You'll define strategies for new data infrastructure products, create and maintain detailed instrumentation specifications for all new features across ASE products, and contribute code to implement these strategies.

Working with stakeholders across product, engineering, data science, privacy, legal, and QA teams, you will:

• Design and implement privacy-preserving analytics systems some of Apple’s flagship software products
• Design and develop frameworks and tools to collect analytics data across all Apple platforms (iOS, macOS, tvOS, watch
  
  OS, vision
  
  OS, web, and third-party)
• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for client instrumentation capabilities, creating specifications for engineering, data science, and QA teams
• Serve as data collection subject-matter expert, advising stakeholders on analytics impact across systems
• Partner with privacy and legal teams to balance analytics needs with consumer privacy protection

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience with iOS and/or web development
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, technical product manager, or engineering-focused management consultant
• Strong software design skills with deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms and hands on experience with programming languages such as Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, Type Script, React, Angular, Ember, Vue
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with ability to translate ambiguous analytics questions into concrete engineering requirements while working with large, distributed cross-functional teams
• Strong prioritization skills with proven ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously with overlapping deadlines

• Ability to assist in the creation and enforcement of privacy and compliance policies and guidelines across ASE and Apple
• 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

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and…