Senior Privacy Engineer (Future Opportunities)

Twitter; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Twitter is seeking a privacy-focused professional in San Francisco to work closely with teams across Engineering and Product. You will be responsible for embedding technical privacy practices into products and identifying risks.

The role requires more than 5 years of experience in technical privacy review, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to address complex privacy issues within systems.

Twitter promotes an inclusive environment and provides accommodations during the recruitment process.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical privacy review.
• Strong privacy domain knowledge is essential.
• Ability to identify common hurdles in privacy and security.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to embed privacy practices.
• Explore products for data protection improvements.
• Identify and fix privacy issues in system designs.

Skills

Technical privacy review

Privacy domain knowledge

Technical privacy issues

Business and technical requirements

Building partnerships

Challenging status quo

Privacy engineering principles

Coaching teammates

Job description

• Full-time

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with cross-functional partners across Engineering and Product to embed sound technical privacy practices in everything we ship and help uncover risks before they become issues;
• Proactively explore Twitter’s products and services to identify improvements in the way we look after data or institute a new privacy-preserving technology;
• Identify important privacy issues within system designs or implementations, and suggest and drive robust designs to fix them.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in technical privacy review to find common failures, good design patterns, and trade-offs;
• Possess strong privacy domain knowledge;
• Solid command of technical privacy issues within the software and systems development lifecycle: Keen ability to identify common hurdles and solutions to effective privacy and security;
• Ability to grasp business, user, and technical requirements, and can identify sophisticated privacy dependencies in large-scale systems;
• Ability to build close partnerships across subject areas and teams (e.g. engineering, legal, policy);
• Ability to challenge the status quo while remaining pragmatic and championing trust with partners;
• Experience leading, engaging and operating within the goals of partner teams, and effectively working with them to integrate privacy into their designs;
• Experience implementing and continuing to evolve privacy engineering principles, culture, and standard methodologies;
• Ability to coach teammates as customer and value-focused privacy engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• History of handling privacy incidents through investigation, fixes, and resolution;
• Experience in human-centric threat modeling, data anonymization, and/or other privacy-preserving techniques, process, or technologies;
• Experience in code review in one or more general purpose languages;
• Experience with developing or debugging microservice architectures or distributed systems.

Additional Information

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other status or characteristic protected by, state, or local laws.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Twitter provides reasonable accommodations during the recruitment and hiring process upon request. Information received relating to accommodations will be addressed confidentially. To request an accommodation, please contact [emailprotected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.