Privacy Engineer Jobs

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GFiber is an Alphabet company that brings Google Fiber and Google Fiber Webpass internet services to homes and businesses across the United States. Our growing, inclusive team is expanding as we connect more cities and people.
GFiber is recruiting a privacy engineer to join our security/privacy/abuse response team. This distributed & remote team is responsible for protecting our customers, our infrastructure, and our employees. A successful privacy engineer brings a combination of subject matter expertise, a privacy mindset, & professional curiosity.
Role Description
As a Privacy Engineer at GFiber, you will be responsible for running the technical privacy programs within GFiber. You will work with internal engineering teams and our vendors to design & implement systems and solutions that turn privacy policies into technical controls. As a Privacy Engineer, you will be part of the security/privacy/abuse response team, performing privacy reviews, participating in the on-call rotation, and other duties as assigned.
In this role, you'll:

• Design and implement privacy capabilities and policies that will be integrated into our products and provide technical consulting on privacy for product teams.
• Analyze, design software enhancements for new data processing activities with a goal of developing technical solutions and systems to help mitigate privacy vulnerabilities and prevent potential future privacy risks.
• Analyze and audit data through its lifecycle to ensure that privacy requirements are being met.
• Design and implement systems and technical solutions required to operationalize the data privacy and governance programs, including evaluation and adoption of third party tools.
• Review, critique, and guide all engineering, user experience, product and infrastructure proposals to assure that privacy and protections are implemented into the design.
• Respond to privacy incidents, if they occur, including collecting information on scope and root cause as well as managing remediation.
• Review, critique, and guide all engineering, user experience, product and infrastructure proposals to assure that privacy and protections are implemented into the design.
• Guide engineering teams during product development to ensure that their data collection and usage practices are transparent, protect user privacy, and mitigate risk.

At a minimum we'd like you to have:

• Previous experience as a hands-on Privacy subject matter expert working with in-house engineering team.
• 6+ years of experience in a related role and experience with concepts and practices such as threat modeling, data anonymization and classification, auditing access to data, and review of requests for data access
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field or equivalent experience

It's preferred if you have:

• Experience operationalizing privacy programs across teams and transformational programs
• Significant knowledge of technical product privacy concerns and strategies
• Patience and negotiation skills with a track record of achieving good user outcomes
• Ability to identify stakeholders and points of view, and bring people together to agree on and execute a strategy
• Significant experience working with cross-functional teams (e.g. Legal, PM, PR, Marketing)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $157,000 K - $224,000 K + bonus + equity + benefits. As pay varies by location, your recruiter will share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.
GFiber is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or Veteran status. Disclosure is voluntary, and this information will be kept confidential in compliance with Google's Candidate Privacy Policy. For more information please refer to our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and the EEOC's "Equal Employment Opportunity is The Law" (PDF).
It's important to us to create an accessible, inclusive workplace for everyone. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our accommodations for applicants form. Our candidate accommodations team will then connect with you to confidentially discuss your options.