Privacy Engineer, Level 4

Snap; New York (NY); On-site; USD 133,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Emotional and mental health support

Equity in RSUs

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Privacy Engineer to help build privacy into ads ranking and targeting systems.

You will partner with engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams to translate privacy requirements into production-ready controls that protect users and preserve product utility. You'll develop and scale privacy-preserving approaches, audit practices, and technical solutions across Snap’s ads ecosystem, designing controls for production systems and leading reviews, threat modeling,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• 2+ years of post‑bachelor’s privacy or security experience, or a master’s +1 year, or PhD.
• Expertise in privacy engineering, reviews, data governance, or security engineering.

Responsibilities

• Integrate privacy into ads ranking and targeting systems.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams to implement controls.
• Develop privacy-preserving approaches and scalable technical solutions.
• Design privacy controls for production systems considering architecture and performance.
• Lead privacy reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments across products and data flows.
• Use AI tools with rigorous safety and correctness standards in production.
• Support privacy-safe advertising and measurement.
• Evaluate privacy-preserving ML approaches and assess leakage risks.
• Help define privacy standards, tooling, and documentation across Snap.

Skills

AI tools auditing

Differential privacy

Anonymization

Cryptography

Privacy-preserving computation

Privacy reviews

Threat modeling

Consent & tracking technologies

Software engineering fundamentals

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Master’s degree or PhD in a 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 how we anticipate and mitigate threats, collaborate across Snap, and execute with privacy at the forefront.

We're looking for a Privacy Engineer to join Snap Inc!

What you’ll do:

• Help build privacy into ads ranking and targeting systems.

• Partner with engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams to translate privacy requirements into practical, production‑ready controls that protect users, support our commitments, and preserve product utility

• 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 technical 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 machine‑learning systems, including leakage and attack risks.

• Help define and evolve privacy standards, practices, tooling, and documentation across Snap.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, using AI tools to streamline development while auditing generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks.

• Experience within applied privacy techniques such as differential privacy, anonymization, cryptography, privacy‑preserving computation, and privacy attack frameworks.

• Expertise within consent, preference, identity, and tracking technologies, including ATT and opt‑out mechanisms; privacy risks in advertising, measurement, machine learning, and embeddings.

• Software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, programming, testing, debugging, and code review.

• Ability to conduct privacy reviews and threat modeling, document findings, and drive remediation with partner teams.

• Ability to partner with engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams to reduce risk from design through deployment and remediation.

• Strong communication skills in order to collaborate across functions, and adapt to evolving AI systems and modern engineering practices.

Minimum 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 in a technical field plus 1+ year of post‑graduate experience; or a PhD in a relevant technical field.

• Expertise in one or more areas such as privacy engineering, privacy reviews, data governance, privacy‑safe advertising or measurement, privacy‑preserving machine learning, or security engineering.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience securing or privacy‑enabling complex distributed systems and production‑scale infrastructure.

• Strong programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, testing, and automation.

• Experience with privacy threat modeling, leakage or attack assessments, privacy‑control validation, or privacy‑preserving ML and embeddings.

• Strong intellectual curiosity and motivation to keep up with evolving privacy, security, AI, and engineering practices.

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 $157,000-$235,000 annually.

Zone B: The base salary range for this position is $149,000-$223,000 annually.

Zone C: The base salary range for this position is $133,000-$200,000 annually. This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.