Staff Privacy Engineer

 Staff Privacy Engineer

The Reddit Privacy Engineering team is rapidly developing and looking for a Staff Privacy Engineer. We look for humble experts with a relentlessly resourceful and entrepreneurial, “can do” view of privacy. We want to deliver facts and not FUD to the business to enable Reddit to manage risk more effectively. We're a team of passionate innovators dedicated to creating privacy forward and scalable solutions that empower our users worldwide. We value collaboration, continuous learning, and making a real impact. Join us and be part of a team that's shaping the digital landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and implement effective technical solutions that enable privacy and data protection by design and by default

• Translate privacy rules and policies into robust, scalable, reusable solutions that protect user privacy while enabling safe, transparent use of data

• Deep dive and become an expert in a complex and heterogeneous codebase and cloud infrastructure to find and harden all data stores and microservices that process personal data

• Be the technical expert for the product and engineering organization that ensures compliance in data protection, governance, and lifecycle management

• Integrate privacy by design into the software development lifecycle including system requirements collection, infrastructure, architecture, design, development, and testing

• Develop solutions for data mapping, governance, classification, and protection

• Leverage knowledge of probability and statistics to build solutions that protect user privacy and mitigate re-identification risk to enable compliant and safe use of user data for analytics, machine learning, and product development 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information systems, or a similar STEM field or equivalent experience

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in working with engineering organizations who can do code review, understand the architecture and micro services 

• Deep knowledge of large scale cloud analytics and storage technologies and SDLC best practices

• Comfortable navigating unfamiliar tech stacks and working with new languages and technologies

• Experience in conducting data privacy compliance reviews and audits  

• Experience with data privacy requirements stemming from regulatory and legislative mandates including CCPA, GDPR, and state data breach notification laws

• Ability to analyze and assess data privacy control capabilities and provide remediation recommendations

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

• Ability to learn and research new technologies and standards rapidly, assess them for privacy exposures, and drive changes to enhance privacy

• Strong interpersonal, consultative, consensus builder, and issue resolution skills

• Proven verbal and written communication skills

• Have the ability to develop Privacy Awareness and communications at all levels within Reddit.  

• Ability to review, analyze and organize documentary and factual evidence   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with any of the following:  Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, or Go

• Experience with AI/ML development and DevPlatform engineering efforts 

• Experience with tracking technologies and age assurance compliance 

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

  • 401k Match

  • Family Planning Support

  • Gender-Affirming Care

  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off

  • Generous paid Parental Leave  

  • Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$167,500—$232,500 USD