About The Position
The WebKit Privacy & Adtech team builds and maintains Intelligent Tracking Prevention, Advanced Tracking Protection, anti fingerprinting, and privacy-preserving ad attribution for Safari and apps. We do our work in the web engine which means systems programming. We are active in web standards, working with other browser vendors as well as website owners on how to progress the web platform with both privacy and advertising in mind. We're looking for an engineer who can help us investigate online tracking and fingerprinting, scale up crawling to detect tracking and fingerprinting in an automated fashion, and design and implement privacy-preserving alternatives to tracking for use in online advertising. This is a role that requires creative thinking to tackle unsolved problems, tenacity in figuring out what trackers are doing, and a firm belief that we can have a great web and Internet with privacy.
Requirements
- Systems programming skills using C++ or similar manual memory managed and pointer-based language
- Knowledge in how cross-site tracking and fingerprinting works
- Experience in ad attribution, ad targeting, and other forms of advertising measurement
- A passion for advocating for users and advancing online privacy
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working on web standards in organizations like W3C and IETF
- Experience using privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as differential privacy, multi-party computation, and homomorphic encryption to deliver utility while protecting users
- C++ and Swift programming
- Experience using large language models for software engineering
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
