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Privacy Engineer, Level 4

Snap Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bellevue, WA; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA)$133k - $235kFull timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Privacy Engineer role focusing on integrating privacy into ads systems, designing privacy controls, conducting risk assessments, and collaborating across engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams at Snap Inc.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2+ years of post-bachelor’s privacy, security, software engineering, or related experience; or a master’s degree in a technical field plus 1+ year of post-graduate experience; or a PhD in a relevant technical field.
  • Expertise in one or more areas such as privacy engineering, privacy reviews, data governance, privacy-safe advertising or measurement, privacy-preserving machine learning, or security engineering.

Skills

Required:AI-enabled development with auditPrivacy techniquesConsent, identity, and tracking technologiesSoftware engineering fundamentalsPrivacy reviews and threat modeling

Benefits

  • paid parental leave
  • comprehensive medical coverage
  • emotional and mental health support programs
  • compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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