Manager, Privacy Engineering

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 Snap chatters every day, ensuring that every product and service is built on a foundation of security and resilience. Our values ()  guide everything we do - from how we anticipate and mitigate threats to how we collaborate across Snap.

We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

​We're looking for a Privacy Engineering Manager to join the Privacy Engineering organization at Snap!

What you'll do:

+ Lead a team building the platforms, policy systems, automation, and validation loops that make privacy scalable across product and infrastructure development.

+ Scale privacy by design through AI-assisted review, reusable policy artifacts, and automation.

+ Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code.

+ Build machine-readable privacy policy, governance, and enforcement mechanisms for engineers and platforms.

+ Partner across product, infrastructure, security, legal, compliance, and data to deliver practical privacy solutions.

+ Lead platforms and workflows that improve governance, validation, retention, deletion, and sensitive data handling.

+ Guide decisions on data use, access, sharing, retention, and AI/ML systems across privacy, product, and business tradeoffs.

+ Build validation loops for privacy commitments in production, including code scanning and system-level analysis.

+ Enable product innovation within strong privacy boundaries, including ads privacy, opt-out enforcement, and privacy-preserving AI agents.

+ Coach engineers, raise the quality bar, and build a strong culture of technical excellence and partnership.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

+ Strong technical leadership and systems thinking, with the ability to set strategy, drive execution, and influence across teams.

+ Experience building or scaling platforms, workflows, or control planes in privacy, security, infrastructure, or related domains.

+ Solid privacy engineering fluency, including data minimization, access boundaries, retention and deletion, and privacy validation.

+ Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks.

+ Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices.

+ Experience translating legal, policy, or governance requirements into technical requirements and durable system behavior.

+ Strong judgment in reviewing complex systems and making tradeoffs across privacy, product velocity, reliability, and business impact.

+ Familiarity with areas such as data governance, identity and access management, cloud infrastructure, ML/AI systems, or security automation.

+ Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineers and building strong cross-functional partnerships.

Minimum Qualifications:

+ Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent years of experience in a related technical field

+ 8+ years of post- bachelor's security / privacy experience; or a Master's degree in a technical field + 7+ years of post-grad security experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4 years of post-grad security experience

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