Software Engineer, Privacy and Trust Infrastructure

Google Inc.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Software Engineer for their Privacy and Trust Infrastructure team in Cambridge. You will develop privacy-focused software solutions and ensure compliance with user data use. Ideal candidates should have experience in solving complex engineering challenges. This role offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to impact billions globally.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus and equity

Comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• Experience driving progress and solving problems in software development.
• Deep expertise in privacy-focused software infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Implement privacy-focused infrastructure components with minimal assistance.
• Contribute to cross-functional project alignment and improving colleagues' work.
• Triage and resolve service issues through analysis and debugging.
• Deliver high-quality, well-documented, and testable code aligned with team goals.

Job description

Software Engineer, Privacy and Trust Infrastructure

Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA

Experience

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

About the job

The team's mission is to raise the trust bar for our users by launching responsible personalization infrastructure for Knowledge and Information (K&I)'s products, and improving operational privacy by committing our privacy promises to code. This team is dedicated to developing privacy-focused software infrastructure that helps with continuous compliance of user data use. Beyond compliance, this also includes the proactive development of privacy enhancements and improvements designed to better meet user privacy needs. This involves comprehensive assessments, evaluation, investigation, and recommendations to mitigate privacy threats originating from unexpected use of user data for product and user experience improvements. This work spans infrastructure-level privacy enforcements and offline data monitoring/mitigation for privacy-focused user-data handling, all to help make confident and impactful privacy promises to users and earn their trust.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Implement assigned components of privacy-focused infrastructure and product enhancements by writing product or system development code for tasks with minimal assistance.
• Contribute to cross-functional alignment related to assigned project component(s), understand how work fits in with related projects and components, including dependencies. Improve each other\'s work by reviewing code developed by others and providing feedback to ensure best practices.
• Triage service issues and debug/track/resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and their impact. Contribute to the technical activities beyond coding, such as reliability monitoring and alerting, integration testing, and production hygiene and support processes.
• Deliver high-quality work aligned to team or company goals in a timely and efficient manner, taking responsibility for work successes and failures. Ensure completed work is of consistently high quality, writing well-factored, testable, resilient, and documented code.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google\'s EEO Policy, Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal, Belonging at Google, and How we hire.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.