Privacy Engineer, Customer Identity

Full Job Description

The Role

We seek a knowledgeable and development-focused Privacy Engineer to take the privacy of our Customer Identity products, customer data, and infrastructure to the next level.

This role is a key member of the Privacy team embedded within the Customer Identity product unit and works across multiple functions to solve data privacy challenges to support the growth of our global Customer Identity business.

 

We are an engineering-focused team that seeks to build software services for cutting-edge of privacy technology and implement controls to mitigate the privacy threat landscape.

In this role you will work as part of a globally distributed team of talented engineers who share a passion for data privacy and enjoy solving complex problems at scale.

 

This role works closely with Product Engineering, Data Engineering, and Privacy legal stakeholders to deliver on data privacy strategy for customer identity products

 

Responsibilities:

Partner closely with cross-functional partners across Engineering, Legal, Data, and Product to embed sound technical privacy practices in everything we ship and help uncover risks before they become issues

Contribute towards development of new privacy features, tools, and scalable solutions to optimize the work of the Privacy Engineering team and enable us to deliver privacy-centric solutions for our internal and external stakeholders

Foster a forum of data stewards to operate as an extended support team for privacy engineering initiatives

Collaborate with Privacy Engineering leadership for annual planning, prioritization, and progress management

Build, deploy & maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure services as well as privacy solutions for customer identity products

Support privacy investigations in coordination with the Legal and Compliance teams, participate in root cause analysis, and perform necessary remediations.

What this position is not:

Security engineering, incident response, dedicated code reviews, or compliance-focused.

 

Requirements:

You have 3+ years of hands-on development experience writing microservices with at least one of the following languages

Go

JavaScript

You have 3+ years of experience performing technical privacy or security reviews, recommending good design patterns, and identifying trade-offs

You have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following:

Database principles including familiarity with SQL, noSQL, and DBT

Privacy automation and orchestration

Privacy impact assessments

Data inventory and classification

User data protection and data loss prevention

Encryption, data anonymization, pseudonymization,

You have strong written and verbal communication skills

You have experience working with a globally distributed and remote team.

 

Bonus points if:

You have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following:

Full-stack engineering

Data pipelines and event streaming platforms such as Kafka

Protocol buffers

Identity and access management

Governance, risk and compliance

GDPR, CCPA / CPRA, or other privacy regulations

Data pipelines for large-scale systems

Data privacy in cloud environments (AWS, Azure)

Data privacy in large-scale data system (Snowflake)

Data privacy in NoSQL data stores including MongoDB"