Lead Software Engineer (data security, data governance) - Security, ML Platform and Infrastructure (ASE)

Summary
The Data Platform team within the ASE organization powers analytics, experimentation, and ML feature engineering to power Siri, Search, and other ML features we all love in our Apple devices. The mission of the Data Platform org is to provide our engineers and data scientists an innovative, reliable, secured, and easy-to-use infrastructure for ingesting, storing, processing, and interacting with data and ultimately help the teams that build data-intensive applications be successful. You will work with many cross-functional teams and lead the planning, execution, and success of technical projects with the ultimate purpose of improving Siri and Search experience for Apple customers. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for Infrastructure Security who is passionate in enhancing our data platform by building frameworks and architectures using cutting edge technology at every level of the technical stack. You will guide product and infrastructure teams to ensure user data security is a core component in every feature we ship. Are you passionate about building security-first data platform and solving data problems at scale? Come join us and be part of the Data Platform journey.



Description
You will be responsible for defining and driving the data security roadmap for our data platform, offering the best data security control and governance across our stack at Apple scale. You will collaborate with cross functional teams of innovative software engineers, product managers, and engineering managers to continually enhance our security posture.

We embrace the use of open source technologies including Kubernetes, Ranger for secured compute platform and Spark, Flink, Trino, Iceberg for data processing.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
- Define and drive technical vision, roadmap, and strategy for data security of our platform.
- Participate in product design reviews to ensure security is a core component of design
- Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional leaders in engineering, product, and operations across Apple to ensure the adoption of our data platform is done in a security compliant manner
- Liaison and coordinate with Corporate Information Security group for reviews, risk assessment, vulnerability treatment, security patches, etc
- Lead and mentor new hires or junior engineers
- Provide guidance and establish processes to ensure engineering excellence and operational sustainability with security compliance
- Foster a healthy, inclusive, collaborative, and technology-driven culture

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