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Description

Our team, Apple Services Engineering (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, watchOS, visionOS, 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

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Preferred Qualifications

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

Minimum Qualifications

BS or 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, TypeScript, 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

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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. 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 location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

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