Privacy Engineer Job Santa Monica area,California USA,Security

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
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 with in 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

Benefits

Up to 28 weeks of parental leave and return-to-work program
Adoption, surrogacy, infertility, and fertility preservation benefits
Backup child care coverage, center-based care support, & caregiver assistance
Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Account
Short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D insurance
Services to support your path to parenthood & beyond - fertility support & family planning via Carrot, SNOO, Hinge Health
For Snap, employees taking care of loved ones with complex, chronic, or ongoing care needs (i.e. parent with Dementia, spouse with Cancer, child with Autism), your family can save time, money, & stress with Wellthy
Lactation rooms (based on office location) and breast milk shipping coverage
Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HDHP with HSA, and HMO options
Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
Vision coverage, including frame and contact allowance and LASIK benefits
Free membership to One Medical for primary and urgent healthcare services
Business Travel Insurance
Gym perks and discounts
Team fitness classes and races
Sports leagues
Cooking and nutritional workshops
Well-being reimbursement
Unlimited access to virtual physical therapy with Anthem
15 sessions per year of mental health for you + dependents through Lyra
Generous time off and leave programs. In the US, this includes the following:
Up to 3 weeks (120 hours) of vacation time and 1 floating holiday for non-exempt team members
12 paid holidays per year
15 sick and safe days per year
Meditation and yoga classes
Speaker series, classes, and subscriptions to educational programs
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