Principal Privacy Engineer — Remote, Complex Data Governance

Anthropic Limited; United States; Remote; USD 485,000 - 625,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a principal privacy engineer to set technical strategy for handling personal data across products, research, and infrastructure. You will lead the most senior engineers, influence across teams, and drive privacy-by-design practices while navigating regulatory requirements.

You will work at the intersection of privacy engineering, distributed systems, and AI safety, delivering high-impact, trusted privacy solutions and mentoring staff toward senior roles.

Qualifications

• Track record as Principal engineer or equivalent
• Experience applying privacy engineering in production systems
• Experience architecting data governance infrastructure at scale
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages
• Understanding of privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA)
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to work with legal/policy teams to translate requirements into design

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical strategy and architecture for major privacy areas
• Lead high-complexity privacy initiatives across teams
• Architect privacy primitives: data discovery, classification, lineage, access control, audit, retention, deletion, export
• Translate regulatory obligations into enforced technical controls with Legal/Policy/Compliance
• Anticipate direction of AI capabilities, regulation, and customer expectations
• Mentor and develop staff engineers, raise privacy design standards
• Represent Anthropic's privacy engineering to customers, regulators, and research community

Skills

Python

Go

Privacy engineering

Data governance

Documentation & design

Regulatory knowledge (GDPR/CCPA)

Written & verbal communication

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a principal privacy engineer to set technical strategy for handling personal data across products, research, and infrastructure. You will lead the most senior engineers, influence across teams, and drive privacy-by-design practices while navigating regulatory requirements.

You will work at the intersection of privacy engineering, distributed systems, and AI safety, delivering high-impact, trusted privacy solutions and mentoring staff toward senior roles.