Platform Privacy Engineer

Summary

Posted: Feb 20, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200570237

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Apple delivers great features and great privacy to our users. The Platform Privacy team designs and ships innovative features within our products to continue to strengthen privacy and deliver a great user experience. This work involves working across the organization, and across the stack, from operating system internals to user interface. Your efforts will impact software platforms touching millions of our customers and developers worldwide. Imagine what you could do here!

Description

As a Platform Privacy Engineer, you’ll primarily work on our backend systems to improve transparency and trust for our app developers. You will also have the opportunity to work on user facing features that requires collaboration cross functionally across the company. You’ll tackle novel problems often, and be responsible for multiple projects up and down the stack. You’ll also frequently research, experiment, and test your way to new solutions. Successful candidates are passionate about privacy (with or without prior experience in privacy), can work through challenging problems independently, and enjoy context switching between projects. Successful candidates also have experience in successfully building and running multiple production facing services. The ability to learn and grow quickly is very valued in this position. You will be touching new systems frequently, pitching new ideas, and actively working on the future of privacy at Apple.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years practical background in software engineering including building, maintaining, and debugging scalable and high throughput cloud/container based services.
• Working experience in building and maintaining applications in cloud (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of binary linkers, toolchains, and symbols data.
• Ability to write maintainable, testable and observable code in Python, Go, Java, or other C-based language.
• BA/BS Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for user privacy
• Strong background in data structures and system architecture
• Strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills

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 $135,400 and $250,600, 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.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.