Privacy Engineer

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience with technical privacy issues (i.e., cookie management, encryption, etc.).

• Experience communicating cross-functionally (e.g., engineering, legal, policy, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in collaborating with compliance and policy teams, government entities, or external privacy-focused community members.
• Experience with the software development lifecycle and achieving excellent user outcomes.
• Ability to communicate technical privacy issues within a corporate environment and the implications to other areas of the business.
• Ability to comprehend and review code in one or more general purpose languages.
• Ability to apply research to problems and issues.

About the job

The Privacy and Data Protection Office (PDPO) coordinates privacy-related initiatives across Product Areas and functions to help maintain a user-first privacy focus, invest in constructive relationships with regulators and key opinion formers worldwide, and ensure that ongoing privacy strategy work is conducted with transparency and accountability.

As a Privacy Engineer, you will be part of the Data Protection Officer team managing current and forthcoming privacy regulations, translating regulatory requirements into privacy by design engineering principles, and building design capabilities that respect the user. You will work with our Legal, Engineering, and other partners to build excellent products that simultaneously grow and protect users and communities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional leaders focused on long-term objectives, and with legal stakeholder and product teams on meeting our commitments.
• Resolve privacy escalations for decisions at internal privacy boards.
• Guide Engineering teams during product development to ensure that data collection and usage practices are transparent, protect user privacy, and mitigate risk.
• Lead teams to excellent privacy outcomes for Google and its users and play a role in Google’s product design process and launch cycle.
• Discover innovative ways to solve previously unresolved privacy issues and make sure executive decision makers have the right information and analysis available to make excellent decisions.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.