Apple

Senior Compliance and Automation Engineer

Apple$130K — $155K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in compliance engineering or data governance with automation expertise
  • Experience with GDPR and DMA compliance implementation
  • Strong understanding of data lineage and metadata management
  • Hands-on experience in creating operational dashboards using BI tools
  • Proficiency in scripting languages like Python and/or JavaScript
  • Ability to write advanced SQL for data querying purposes
  • Experience in designing automated compliance workflows

Responsibilities

  • Standardize compliance processes and manage product operations
  • Replace manual tracking with automated compliance controls
  • Collaborate with compliance engineers to enhance governance operations
  • Identify and implement shared compliance controls across teams
  • Map compliance controls to appropriate monitoring levels
  • Enhance operations platforms for centralized compliance reporting
  • Automate evidence collection and support auditing processes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Opportunities for career development and advancement
  • Work with a dynamic team at the forefront of compliance technology
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and platforms
  • Collaboration with industry experts and thought leaders
Full Job Description
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

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

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

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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