Privacy Engineer: AI-Powered Ads & Data Security

Snap Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Privacy Engineer to embed privacy into ads ranking and targeting systems and collaborate with engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams across the organization.

The role focuses on designing and implementing privacy controls for production systems, scaling privacy-preserving solutions, and leading risk assessments to protect users and data while preserving product utility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of post-bachelor’s privacy, security, software engineering, or related experience; or a master’s degree plus 1 year; or a PhD in a relevant field.
• Expertise in privacy engineering, privacy reviews, data governance, privacy-preserving ML, or security engineering.

Responsibilities

• Help build privacy into ads ranking and targeting systems.
• Partner with engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams to translate privacy requirements into production-ready controls.
• Develop and scale privacy-preserving approaches, auditing practices, and technical solutions across Snap’s ads ecosystem.
• Design and implement privacy controls for production systems, considering architecture, scale, performance, reliability, and operational risk.
• Lead privacy reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for products, services, data flows, APIs, and designs.
• Utilize AI tools and high-velocity engineering workflows to ship scalable services while maintaining rigorous standards for correctness, security, and production quality.
• Support privacy-safe advertising and measurement.
• Evaluate privacy-preserving approaches for ML systems, including leakage and attack risks.

Skills

AI tool usage

Privacy engineering

Threat modeling

Communication

Collaboration across teams

Security fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Privacy tooling

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Privacy Engineer to embed privacy into ads ranking and targeting systems and collaborate with engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams across the organization.

The role focuses on designing and implementing privacy controls for production systems, scaling privacy-preserving solutions, and leading risk assessments to protect users and data while preserving product utility.