Staff Privacy Engineer, Google Ads
About The Position
The Ads Privacy team is tasked with ensuring that Google’s advertising products, from infrastructure to AI, operate smoothly and sustainably by keeping our promise to user privacy. As a Staff Privacy Engineer, you will be a partner who builds privacy into our products from the ground up. You will move beyond individual feature reviews to define the technical privacy strategy for entire product areas. You will collaborate with product management and engineering leadership to understand long-term roadmaps, anticipating privacy needs before they become blockers. In this role, you will be an architect of trust. You will design the scalable systems and guardrails that allow our business to innovate efficiently while protecting user data. You will identify risks and engineer the solutions that enable teams to meet their goals safely and effectively. 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience working in a privacy related field (e.g., security engineering, data engineering, data scientist, compliance engineering, etc.).
- 7 years of experience translating product roadmaps and regulatory requirements into engineering strategies.
- 2 years of experience selecting and configuring privacy technologies or frameworks to solve technical and operational problems to meet business objectives.
- 2 years of experience leading company-wide technical projects and delivering privacy strategy recommendations to executive leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Privacy, or a related field.
- Knowledge of integrating privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and data governance frameworks into product infrastructure.
- Knowledge of AI/ML.
- Ability to anticipate future privacy challenges and engineer solutions that enable business growth.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product management and engineering to align privacy engineering initiatives with long-term product roadmaps.
- Anticipate future business needs and design privacy architectures that support them.
- Lead the privacy design for Google’s most complex systems.
- Advocate privacy-by-design principles, working with teams to build scalable privacy controls directly into the infrastructure.
- Act as a bridge between legal, product, and engineering.
- Translate complex regulatory requirements and privacy principles into clear, actionable engineering strategies that enable business success.
- Design privacy systems that meet the business where they are for performance, feasibility, and scalability.
- Build efficient solutions that protect user privacy without sacrificing product velocity.
- Foster a culture of privacy awareness and excellence.
- Mentor junior Privacy Engineers and broader engineering teams, establishing organizational standards that make privacy an integral part of the development lifecycle.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
