Principal Engineer, Privacy, Ads Privacy and Safety
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent experience
- 15 years of experience in Engineering, with 5 years of experience with data and privacy regulations
- Experience directly or indirectly managing (~20 people) stakeholders including engineering, product, public relations, and legal
- Experience developing processes and running privacy engineering reviews
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering
- Experience successfully producing software products and large-scale distributed systems
- Knowledge of Google Ads products, regulatory environment, ecosystems our products and users exist in, and our competitors and their products
- Demonstrated history of cross-organizational collaboration, people management, and influencing other teams' directions and road maps, supported by your strong organization, prioritization, written and verbal communication skills
About the job
Google Ads is seeking a strong Principal Engineer, Privacy to drive innovation across Ads Privacy & Safety ("APaS").
Privacy has become an essential ingredient for business success today, it’s a rapidly changing space with new regulations, technologies, and industry changes that are evolving how end users engage with products that they trust and can endorse. This job entails working with cross-functional teams within Google on activities related to compliance and privacy. Our Privacy Engineers review all privacy launches, so we easily make contacts and connections across Ads teams, Legal, the central privacy organization, etc. and maintain a high stake in driving the direction of how we treat user privacy. Our team in Google delivers privacy-preserving best practices and technologies that empowers Google to deliver a privacy-respecting web economy.
As a member of the Google APaS team, you will work to bring clarity to the complexity of the policy and regulatory landscape while enabling the care we take to prevent harm to our users and ensure the safety of the Ads ecosystem. As a member of the overall Google Ads team, you will be exposed to a variety of business, product, technical, and organizational challenges as well. The technology you build will ensure that every ad Google shows meets our policies, every user interaction is authentic, and every product strategy ensures user Privacy. To do this APaS needs to set the direction on Google’s core infrastructure components (storage, logs, online, offline) and roll out changes for all ads systems and PAGs.
Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $294,000-$414,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Lead the privacy engineering team that guides Ads Product teams during product development to ensure that their data collection and usage practices are transparent, protect user privacy, and mitigate risk.
- Lead the process for technical and policy reviews to identify and escalate potential privacy concerns, and manage proactive development of new privacy features and tools.
- Drive product/business strategy and public policy and legal initiatives to address and mitigate privacy risks and conduct outreach to Googlers on privacy topics, particularly after privacy incidents, if they occur, including collecting information on scope and root cause as well as managing remediation.
- Work with cross-functional teams within Google on privacy engineering activities related to privacy, security, data protection, and data retention.
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