Privacy Engineer III, Platforms Security and Privacy

Google LLC; Zürich; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Zurich is seeking a Privacy Engineer III to help strengthen the integrity of our platforms by designing privacy-preserving solutions and evaluating engineering designs for privacy impact. You will partner with product and security teams to balance risk and uphold regulatory requirements.

You will build and review privacy tooling, conduct data governance assessments, and document decisions to guide engineering practices across Android and Google services used worldwide.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience designing solutions that enhance privacy posture by analyzing engineering designs and influencing stakeholders.
• 2 years of experience applying privacy technologies and customizing solutions to meet organizational needs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical and quantitative analysis to drive scalable, data-driven privacy decisions.
• Design, architect, and lead implementation of privacy-enhancing solutions with engineering teams.
• Conduct privacy impact assessments and bridge data regulations with governance and engineering practices.
• Develop, maintain and publish design or technical documentation to drive consistency in privacy decisions.

Skills

Privacy design

Stakeholder management

Code review

GDPR/CCPA knowledge

Privacy tech

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Privacy Engineer III, Platforms Security and Privacy

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 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) and influencing stakeholders.
  
• 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 balancing risks in ambiguous and complex situations with multiple stakeholders.
  
• Experience managing multiple high priority requests, while determining resource allocation (e.g., time, prioritization) to solve the problems in a fast-paced, changing organization.
  
• Code review experience in one or more programming languages.
• Knowledge of common regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
  

About the job

Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

In this role, you will influence infrastructure, tools, and features that go into Android and Google's core products running on Android: Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. You’ll advocate for Android users by putting user privacy first and help uphold requirements related to regulations.

Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical and quantitative analysis to drive scalable, efficient, and data-driven privacy decision-making.
  
• Design, architect, and lead implementation of privacy-enhancing solutions alongside engineering teams.
  
• Conduct privacy impact assessment of a single product component, and determine how to bridge between data regulations, governance and practical engineering practices, and policy practices.
  
• Develop, maintain and publish design or technical documentation to drive consistency in privacy decisions and practices.
  

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