
Privacy Engineer - Systems Experiences, Apps, and Technologies
Required skills
- BSCS
- cryptography
- anonymizing users
- differential privacy
- private federated learning
- privacy exposures
- privacy impact
- data collection requests
- privacy preserving features
- fraud detection algorithms
Nice to have
- customer privacy
- research new technologies
- assess privacy exposures
- suggest mitigations
- analyze systems’ architectures
- solve complex problems
Role summary
Apple is seeking an experienced Privacy Engineer to join their User Privacy Team. This role involves providing privacy guidance to teams working on core applications like Wallet, Mail, and Safari. Responsibilities include reviewing features for privacy exposures, designing new privacy-preserving data collection methodologies, auditing products for bugs and privacy impact, and communicating risks to senior leadership. The role requires experience with cryptography, differential privacy, and programming, with preferred qualifications in systems architecture analysis, fraud detection, and web/payment technologies.
Description
We are seeking an experienced engineer to provide privacy guidance to teams across Apple working on core applications such as Wallet, Mail and Safari. This includes feature reviews and the design of new, privacy preserving data collection methodologies to enable Apple to improve products with industry-leading privacy. In this role you will: - Review features to identify privacy exposures and partner with teams to design mitigations. - Audit new products to identify bugs in development, and review customer data collected by engineering teams to drive decisions for privacy impact. - Communicate privacy risks and potential mitigations to senior leadership to drive decisions. - Review data collection requests and systems that enable product improvement while preserving privacy. - Partner with technical experts in web browsing and digital payments to build privacy-preserving features and technologies, including fraud detection algorithms. Successful candidates will need to have superb communication skills and a passion for protecting privacy. Creative problem solving, analytical, and deductive reasoning skills are critical for this position. You will be working on multiple unrelated systems each week, so the ability to learn quickly and an excitement for new things is a must.
Minimum Qualifications
BSCS or equivalent experience Experience with cryptography and its use for end-to-end encrypting data or anonymizing users Experience with differential privacy or private federated learning Programming experience
Preferred Qualifications
Passion for customer privacy Strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills Ability to learn and research new technologies rapidly, assess privacy exposures, and suggest mitigations Ability to analyze systems’ architectures for privacy impact Ability to solve complex problems independently
Sample Apple interview questions
- 1
Design a typeahead box for a search engine
system designmedium - 2
Design a rate limiter
system designmedium - 3
Architect a key-value store for distributed systems.
system designmedium - 4
Design a system to schedule jobs in a distributed environment
system designmedium - 5
What is an API and how does it work?
technicalmedium
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