Privacy Engineer, Core Privacy

Privacy Engineer, Core Privacy at Google

The Core Privacy team is dedicated to offering product privacy engagement across various teams, including product, engineering, and others. This involves developing proposals, defining requirements, and designing solutions to ensure user privacy. The team plays a crucial role in establishing and informing the product privacy strategy for various Product Areas (PAs) within Google. They are also instrumental in developing and communicating product privacy policies and guidance in response to evolving regulatory landscapes and ecosystem changes. A key responsibility includes conducting launch reviews, serving as the final stage in the development and launch process to ensure privacy compliance. Furthermore, the Core Privacy team collaborates with Google-wide and cross-PA privacy teams to provide essential privacy guidance for cross-PA initiatives and to ensure Core Privacy's perspective is represented in broader Google-wide privacy decision-making processes.

As part of the Core team, you will build the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Focus on conducting privacy reviews and consultations for infrastructure teams.
• Participate in organization-wide projects, with support from executive privacy engineers to develop privacy engineering skills.
• Conduct privacy reviews, and provide consultation requests from product engineers seeking privacy guidance on collection, storage, processing, and deletion of personal information, as well as deployment of privacy-protecting methods and patterns.
• Work with cross-functional teams to design and implement privacy-protective solutions.
• Identify and flag privacy risks in systems to executive privacy engineers.
• Contribute to privacy strategy, guidance, policy, or project work.
• Help to improve systems and processes, alongside program management professionals.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in designing solutions by analyzing and assessing proposed engineering designs (e.g., product features, infrastructure systems), and with stakeholder collaboration.
• 2 years of experience in applying privacy technologies (e.g., differential privacy, automated access management solutions, etc.), and customizing existing solutions and frameworks.
• Experience in privacy, business communication, privacy data management, information privacy, and privacy design documents.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), or Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).
• 4 years of experience in privacy, security or compliance environments, with threat modeling, architecture or solution design.
• Knowledge of applying policy requirements, privacy enhancing technologies (e.g., zero knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryptions) and privacy controls and systems (e.g., pseudonymization, access control, transparency, control) to manage privacy outcomes.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional technical and business teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to create process documentation and guidelines for users.

Key skills/competency

• Privacy Engineering
• Data Protection
• Compliance
• Risk Assessment
• Privacy by Design
• Differential Privacy
• Access Management
• Threat Modeling
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Policy Implementation