Senior Privacy Engineer
Lead privacy engineering projects protecting user data across search, browser, and AI features. Own major privacy components, participate in audits, and mentor engineers using Go, Node.js, Python, or Perl.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead complex projects across key company-wide objectives on the Privacy Functional Team
- Protect user privacy using Go, Node.js, Python, and Perl to write pragmatic, performant, testable code
- Design systems for improving search indexes and AI features without compromising user privacy
- Build new features on top of Tracker Radar crawler to detect emerging privacy threats
- Implement new privacy features and maintain existing ones (Web Tracking Protection, Email Protections)
- Own major components of privacy technology, taking responsibility for maintenance and improvement
- Participate in privacy review and audit processes to ensure product developments align with privacy principles
- Mentor other engineers and support career growth of the Privacy Team
Requirements
- Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem
- Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them effectively
- Experience working on privacy solutions in an engineering capacity (e.g., tracker blocker, differential privacy, or similar technology)
- Deep technical understanding of online privacy threats and the existing solution space
- Proficiency in any of the following: Go, Node.js, Python, Perl
- Excellent communication skills; ability to validate decisions and communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
Nice-to-Haves
- Formal mentoring experience
Compensation & Benefits
- $178,500 USD annually and stock options
- Compensation identical within professional levels regardless of geographic location
- Paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances
Skills
Go, Node.js, Python, Perl, Privacy Engineering, Tracker Blocking, Differential Privacy, Web Tracking Protection, Search Indexing, Ai Privacy
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