Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is looking to define the future of privacy-first instrumentation capabilities to answer high-level analytics questions at scale while preserving consumer privacy
Requirements
- 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
- Strong software design skills, coupled with a deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- 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
- Ability to assist in the creation and enforcement of privacy and compliance policies and guidelines across ASE and Apple
- Strong prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously with overlapping deadlines
- Comfort working with large, cross-functional teams spread across multiple locations
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 sophisticated analytics needs, including technical system design and implementation
- Advise business and engineering team members 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
- Create and maintain instrumentation specifications for all new features, detailing the fields, values and when the data is collected and when for all new features released across ASE products and services
Other
- 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, technical product manager, or engineering focused management consultant
- Strong communication and collaboration skills: The ability to translate ambiguous high-level analytics questions into concrete engineering asks
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
- Ability to work with a wide range of collaborators including product managers, client and server engineering, data scientists/business analysts, privacy engineers and attorneys, QA, and more
- Travel requirements not specified
