Manager, Privacy Engineering

Snap Inc.; Northern, Los Angeles (KY, CA); Hybrid; USD 238,000 - 358,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in RSUs

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Privacy Engineering Manager to lead a team building scalable privacy platforms, policy systems, automation, and validation loops across product and infrastructure development.

You will drive privacy by design using AI-assisted review, reusable policy artifacts, and automation while collaborating with legal, compliance, data, and product teams to deliver practical privacy solutions.

Qualifications

• BS in a technical field or equivalent with security/privacy experience.
• 8+ years in security/privacy; or advanced degree with 7+ years; or PhD with 4+ years.
• 1+ year of technical leadership or engineering management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team building privacy platforms, policy systems, automation, and validation loops across product and infrastructure.
• Scale privacy by design through AI-assisted review and reusable policy artifacts.
• Build machine-readable privacy policy, governance, and enforcement mechanisms for engineers and platforms.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, security, legal, compliance, and data to deliver privacy solutions.
• Guide data use decisions, access, sharing, retention, and AI/ML system privacy tradeoffs.
• Enable product innovation within strong privacy boundaries and enforcement.
• Coach engineers and raise the quality bar to foster technical excellence.

Skills

Technical leadership

Privacy engineering

AI tools

Cross-functional partnerships

Data governance

Cloud infra

ML/AI systems

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent years of experience in a related technical field

Job description

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.

Snap Security teams protect the trust and safety of our global community by securing the systems and data that power Snapchat. We safeguard hundreds of millions of Snapchatters every day, ensuring that every product and service is built on a foundation of security and resilience. Our values guide everything we do - from how we anticipate and mitigate threats to how we collaborate across Snap. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Privacy Engineering Manager to join the Privacy Engineering organization at Snap!

What you’ll do:

• Lead a team building the platforms, policy systems, automation, and validation loops that make privacy scalable across product and infrastructure development.
• Scale privacy by design through AI-assisted review, reusable policy artifacts, and automation.
• Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code.
• Build machine-readable privacy policy, governance, and enforcement mechanisms for engineers and platforms.
• Partner across product, infrastructure, security, legal, compliance, and data to deliver practical privacy solutions.
• Lead platforms and workflows that improve governance, validation, retention, deletion, and sensitive data handling.
• Guide decisions on data use, access, sharing, retention, and AI/ML systems across privacy, product, and business tradeoffs.
• Build validation loops for privacy commitments in production, including code scanning and system-level analysis.
• Enable product innovation within strong privacy boundaries, including ads privacy, opt-out enforcement, and privacy-preserving AI agents.
• Coach engineers, raise the quality bar, and build a strong culture of technical excellence and partnership.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong technical leadership and systems thinking, with the ability to set strategy, drive execution, and influence across teams.
• Experience building or scaling platforms, workflows, or control planes in privacy, security, infrastructure, or related domains.
• Solid privacy engineering fluency, including data minimization, access boundaries, retention and deletion, and privacy validation.
• Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks.
• Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices.
• Experience translating legal, policy, or governance requirements into technical requirements and durable system behavior.
• Strong judgment in reviewing complex systems and making tradeoffs across privacy, product velocity, reliability, and business impact.
• Familiarity with areas such as data governance, identity and access management, cloud infrastructure, ML/AI systems, or security automation.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineers and building strong cross-functional partnerships.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent years of experience in a related technical field
• 8+ years of post- bachelor’s security / privacy experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ years of post-grad security experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4 years of post-grad security experience
• 1 + year(s) of technical leadership or engineering management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading privacy platform, or privacy governance work in a consumer or large-scale technology environment.
• Experience building policy systems, automation, or validation frameworks that reduce manual review and improve consistency.
• Experience with AI-assisted workflows, policy codification, or automated decision-support systems in privacy, security, or trust and safety.
• Experience partnering with legal, compliance, audit, or risk teams to operationalize requirements through engineering controls.
• Familiarity with privacy challenges in ads, ML systems, or agentic AI product surfaces.
• Experience improving engineering processes and increasing team leverage through reusable mechanisms rather than manual review alone.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap

At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week.

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).

Our Benefits

Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC)

The base salary range for this position is $251,000-$377,000 annually.

Zone B

The base salary range for this position is $238,000-$358,000 annually.

Zone C

The base salary range for this position is $213,000-$320,000 annually. This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.