Senior Compliance and Automation Engineer

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The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Privacy Compliance team is seeking a Continuous Compliance and Automation Engineer to support the transition from manual to automated workflows, controls, audits, and gap remediation. In this role, you will work at the intersection of compliance engineering, data governance, and compliance operations, ensuring data and assets remain discoverable, accurately classified, properly curated, and verifiably compliant with regulatory standards, including GDPR, DMA, and beyond.

Description

Compliance product operations & governance

• Process standardization and regulatory adherence with compliance product operations management

• Replace manual tracking with policy-driven, event-based enforcement to enhance compliance control workflows

• Partner with dedicated compliance engineers to scale data governance and compliance operations

• Identify opportunities for shared controls and monitoring across teams

• Map compliance controls to appropriate monitoring levels

• Implement processes to ensure data quality, completeness, and accuracy across large-scale datasets

Compliance Platform Development

• Enhance compliance operations platforms to centralize and accelerate compliance reporting across ASE

• Develop automated workflows and alerts to proactively identify and surface compliance gaps

Evidence Collection & Audit Support

• Enable cross-functional collaboration to support internal audits and assessments

• Automate evidence collection through scalable pipeline flows

• Build automated validation and reporting pipelines to support audit readiness and compliance evidence generation

Preferred Qualifications

Data Catalog Platforms: Familiarity with enterprise catalog tools such as Collibra, DataHub, Unified Catalog, or equivalent

Data Access Governance: Experience with approval workflows, entitlement management, and access control systems

Enterprise Governance Programs: Prior experience supporting large-scale, multi-team governance or compliance programs

AI/ML Governance: Exposure to AI/ML-based data classification or governance automation frameworks at scale

Experience building operational compliance dashboards providing real-time visibility into governance posture, SLA adherence, and remediation progress

Familiarity with data classification frameworks (PII, sensitive, confidential, internal-only) and operationalizing them using ML or rule-based approaches

Minimum Qualifications

7 years of experience in compliance engineering, data governance, GRC, or data platform engineering with strong automation expertise

GDPR / DMA Compliance: Proven experience operationalizing privacy and regulatory requirements into technical controls and monitoring solutions

Data Governance: Strong understanding of data lineage, metadata management, policy enforcement, and control frameworks

Dashboard Development: Hands-on experience building operational compliance and governance dashboards using BI tools or web technologies

Scripting & Automation: Working knowledge of Python and/or JavaScript to develop automation scripts, integrate APIs, manipulate data, and support compliance and governance workflows.

SQL & Columnar Systems: Ability to write production-grade SQL to query large-scale distributed data stores for validation and audit purposes

Workflow Automation: Experience designing and deploying automated compliance workflows at scale

Cross-Team Communication: Ability to drive accountability and remediation ownership across distributed, multi-team organizations

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

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