Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)