Privacy Engineer, Google Ads

About the Role: Privacy Engineer, Google Ads

As a Privacy Engineer, Google Ads, you will be a critical part of the Ads Privacy team, ensuring the sustainable operation of Google's advertising business by prioritizing user privacy. This role involves designing and implementing privacy-first solutions for Google Ads products and services, adhering to a "privacy by design, privacy by default" philosophy. You will provide infrastructure for secure user data access and auditability, reviewing every product launch to guarantee compliance with user privacy commitments and regulatory requirements like GDPR and CPRA.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide engineering teams during product development to ensure transparent data collection and usage practices, protecting user privacy, and mitigating risk.
• Play a critical role in Google’s product design process and launch cycle.
• Conduct technical and policy reviews to identify and escalate potential privacy concerns.
• Lead and manage proactive development of new privacy features and tools.
• Respond to privacy incidents if they occur, including collecting information on scope and root cause as well as managing remediation.
• Work with cross-functional teams within Google on privacy engineering activities related to privacy, security, data protection, and data storage.
• Produce artifacts to guide and train others on ads privacy best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience working in a privacy-related field (e.g., security engineering, data engineering, compliance engineering etc.).
• 2 years of experience designing solutions that maintain or enhance the privacy posture of the organization by analyzing and assessing proposed engineering designs (e.g., product features, infrastructure systems).
• 2 years of experience applying privacy technologies (e.g., differential privacy, automated access management solutions, etc.), and customizing existing solutions and frameworks to meet organizational needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with common regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and working with regulators or regulatory authorities.
• Experience with the software development lifecycle.
• Experience in machine learning and generative AI privacy.
• Knowledge of the ads or online commerce domain.
• Understanding of technical privacy issues (cookie management, encryption).

About Google Ads

Google Ads powers the open internet by connecting and creating value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. Comprising multiple teams, Google Ads builds Google’s advertising products across search, display, shopping, travel, and video advertising, alongside analytics. The teams focus on creating trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads, helping grow businesses of all sizes, from small enterprises to large brands and YouTube creators, through effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. Google Ads also enables Google to engage with customers at scale.

Key skills/competency

• Privacy Engineering
• Data Privacy
• GDPR/CCPA/CPRA
• Security Engineering
• Data Protection
• Product Design
• Risk Mitigation
• Incident Response
• Privacy by Design
• Differential Privacy