Principal Privacy Engineer
About The Position
At DoorDash we’re building the industry’s most scalable and reliable delivery network to support our three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and Dashers. Security is paramount to the success of our business, and DoorDash Security aspires to be the world’s most admired security team. We are committed to building the world's most trusted on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're expanding our team of great minds to help us secure and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s multi-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. About the Role Our Security Engineering team is looking for a Principal Privacy Engineer to set and lead the technical direction for privacy engineering at DoorDash globally. You will be a part of our inclusive, collaborative global team responsible for building “paved road” privacy preserving controls to ensure a safe, privacy preserving and resilient delivery network. This is a US or Canada remote position reporting directly to the Director of our Security Engineering team. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience as a privacy engineer at an Internet scale organization with demonstrated technical leadership in applications of privacy enhancing technologies, machine learning, and analytical techniques for privacy assurances and validation at scale.
- Track record of shifting the industry in how Internet scale companies deliver privacy preserving experiences across global economies.
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Privacy, or a related field.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in Data Classification, Inventory, Sharing, and Deletion.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in Technical Data Governance (Data Scanning), Data Protection (Encryption, Pseudonomization, Crypto Shredding), Privacy Enhancing Controls (PETs), and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
- Demonstrated technical leadership designing technical privacy engineering controls and processes to meet required regulatory requirements such as Right to Be Forgotten, and Navigating Privacy Frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, DSA, etc.)
- Demonstrated technical leadership in designing scalable, AI enabled and ergonomic privacy review processes.
- Exceptional problem solving of complex, systemic issues that require audacious thinking, rigor and creativity.
- Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience leading root cause analysis for privacy incidents and driving long term roadmaps to remediate.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - you can shape and lead the privacy engineering function globally and influence stakeholders across core engineering and product teams to privacy preserving control outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Set and execute the technical vision for Privacy Engineering, ensuring alignment with DoorDash business objectives.
- Lead the overall global privacy engineering direction and roadmap execution.
- Be the foremost technical expert to design, influence and ship practical privacy preserving controls with rigor and developer ergonomics.
- Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure, Product Engineering, Legal, Security, Data teams and partners to build “paved road” privacy preserving controls that enable privacy by design practices into the product and infrastructure development process.
- Build and maintain high Operational Excellence (OE) privacy services to ensure we operate with excellence, rigor and durable standards to ensure minimal downtime.
- Influence and enable the secure and responsible adoption of LLMs and AI tools from a privacy preserving perspective.
Benefits
- a 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- wellness benefits
- commuter benefits match
- paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
- medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- disability and basic life insurance
- family-forming assistance
- a mental health program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
