Senior Privacy Engineer
Senior Privacy Engineer
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$ 156000 - 234000
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Job Description
Want to help us help others Were hiring!
GoFundMe is the worlds most powerful community for good dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place GoFundMe makes it easy and safe for people to ask for help and support causesfor themselves and each other. Together our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010.
We are seeking a Senior Privacy Engineer to join our Data Platform and Security team. This role will be instrumental in embedding privacy by design principles into our modern cloud-native data ecosystem. You will improve and operationalize privacy controls across data pipelines products and platformsensuring that personal and sensitive information is protected while enabling scalable analytics AI/ML and product innovation. By working closely with security engineering legal and data teams you will help us balance compliance with speed building trust in how data is managed protected and used.
This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with an in-office expectation of 3x per week.
The Job
As the Senior Privacy Engineer you will:
- Embed Privacy by Design: Strengthen and operationalize our Privacy by Design program across systems integrations pipelines and applications for B2B and B2C products and services.
- Investigate & Remediate Incidents: Analyze privacy and security incidents perform root cause analysis and drive remediation to prevent recurrence.
- Conduct Risk Assessments: Assist in privacy impact assessments for new products or data uses and risk reviews to identify vulnerabilities in our platforms APIs and ML Pipelines etc.
- Optimize Privacy Controls: Design and implement advanced controls for data classification access management encryption anonymization and pseudonymization.
- Provide Guidance & Enablement: Prescribe guidance and techniques for data anonymization and pseudonymization to the Data Engineering team enabling the ML team to develop privacy-preserving models.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with security legal IT engineering and AI teams to align on regulatory compliance and technical implementation.
- Support Compliance: Ensure global privacy compliance (GDPR CCPA etc.) across a modern data stack (Snowflake Databricks CDP Looker AWS etc).
- Innovate Privacy Solutions: Drive the development of new privacy-preserving features tools and automation for data lifecycle management.
- Maintain Documentation: Build and update technical documentation covering data flows tracking technologies retention policies and privacy controls.
You
- 5 years of experience in privacy engineering data protection or security engineering.
- Passion for privacy trust and data protection in modern cloud platforms.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to solve complex privacy and technical issues autonomously.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Background in secure coding practices code auditing and privacy-preserving design patterns.
- Proficiency with Python or other scripting languages for automation and privacy tool development.
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments and integration into data pipelines.
- Awareness of data protection regulations and principles (GDPR CCPA) and the ability to translate legal guidance into technical processes..
- Familiarity with privacy tech platforms (e.g. DataGrail Transcend) Data Subject Requests cookie and tracking technology management platforms (CMPs) is a plus.
- Experience embedding privacy into modern data platforms (CDPs Snowflake Databricks analytics tools AI/ML workflows) is highly beneficial.
Why youll love it here
- Make an Impact: Be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive difference in millions of lives every year.
- Innovative Environment: Work with a diverse passionate and talented team in a fast-paced forward-thinking atmosphere.
- Collaborative Team: Join a fun and collaborative team that works hard and celebrates success together.
- Competitive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits.
- Holistic Support: Enjoy financial assistance for things like hybrid work family planning along with generous parental leave flexible time-off policies and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being.
- Growth Opportunities: Participate in learning development and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow.
- Commitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity equity and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups.
- Community Engagement: Make a difference through our volunteering and Gives Back programs.
We live by our core values: impatient to be great find a way earn trust every day fueled by purpose. Be a part of something bigger with us!
GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion ethnicity nationality or national origin sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression pregnancy status marital status age medical condition mental or physical disability or military or veteran status.
The total annual salary for this full-time position is $156000 - $234000 equity benefits. The salary range was determined by role level and possible location across the US. 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 based on your location during the hiring process.
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Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants:
Depending on your location the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or certain US privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here. By submitting your application you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.
Learn more about GoFundMe:
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
