Senior Privacy Tech Lead & Systems Architect

Meta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks a Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) to own the interface between Meta's engineering groups and Governance, Risk and Compliance, setting technical direction for privacy obligations and building centralized standards and tooling. You will mentor engineers, influence cross-team architecture, and drive programs that strengthen privacy, security and integrity across product systems.

You will lead multi-year roadmaps, communicate trade-offs to executives, and recruit top engineering

Qualifications

• 12+ years designing, building, and scaling large-scale software systems.
• 12+ years programming with cross-system technical problems through direct implementation.
• Experience leading multi-year technical roadmaps and cross-organizational initiatives from vision to execution.
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams and functions.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving culture improvements through programs and standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and architecture for large-scale product systems, ensuring designs are reliable, extensible, and capable of evolving with business needs.
• Identify and solve the most complex, cross-cutting engineering problems across multiple systems and abstraction layers, including issues that span organizational boundaries.
• Establish extensible technical foundations, coding standards, and architectural patterns that improve consistency and delivery velocity across engineering organizations.
• Lead cross-functional execution of org-wide technical initiatives, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies, and driving outcomes against defined milestones and metrics.
• Develop and operationalize engineering excellence programs including reliability standards, performance guardrails, and quality frameworks adopted across teams.
• Deeply understand privacy, security, and integrity vulnerabilities relevant to product systems and build robust technical safeguards in partnership with compliance and policy teams.
• Mentor engineers across the organization by providing candid feedback, customized coaching, and technical guidance on the most challenging system and feature design problems.
• Communicate complex technical strategies and trade-offs clearly to audiences ranging from individual contributors to executive leadership, producing artifacts used as long-term references.
• Identify systemic issues and recurring failure patterns across the organization, developing invariants and architectural improvements that prevent entire classes of problems.
• Recruit and develop engineers with skills critical to the team's success, role-modeling technical and cultural standards that strengthen the broader engineering community.

Skills

Leadership

Privacy knowledge

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring

Architectural vision

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Meta seeks a Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) to own the interface between Meta's engineering groups and Governance, Risk and Compliance, setting technical direction for privacy obligations and building centralized standards and tooling. You will mentor engineers, influence cross-team architecture, and drive programs that strengthen privacy, security and integrity across product systems.

You will lead multi-year roadmaps, communicate trade-offs to executives, and recruit top engineering