Apple
Data Governance Engineer
$150K–$278K
Austin, Texas +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Cupertino, California - Experience
- 5+ years of software development experience, including exposure to ML/AI applications.
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science or related field
About the job
Build privacy-focused data governance systems and autonomous agents that enforce policies, validate data quality, and protect data across large-scale pipelines.
What you'll do
- Design governance agents for petabyte-scale data pipelines and build integrations for policy enforcement, PII detection, and data quality validation.
- Develop intelligent monitoring, compliance reporting, and automated remediation with engineering and product partners.
- Create reusable agent workflows and contribute to reliable, scalable distributed agent systems; use AI coding agents with validation for correctness, privacy, and cost.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of software development experience, including exposure to ML/AI applications.
- Production experience in Python, Java, Rust, or similar languages, with familiarity in data processing and API development.
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms, including CAP theorem tradeoffs and basic ML model deployment.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and deployment workflows.
Nice to have
- Expertise in data analytics and governance platforms such as Datahub, Apache Spark, Flink, Hive, Hadoop/HDFS, and Iceberg Rest Catalog.
- Experience with multi-agent AI systems, MCP servers and APIs, MLOps, observability, and modern data platforms.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (USD, base salary)
Tools
Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Python, Java, Rust, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Design autonomous governance agents and multi-agent workflows for policy enforcement, PII detection, data quality, monitoring, and remediation; use AI coding agents to accelerate implementation, testing, and debugging.
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