The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history.

Today, the Linux Foundation has over 2,000 corporate members from over 41 countries, including every single one the Fortune 100. The Linux Foundation has proudly created over $54B in shared technology value since inception. We’re growing at a phenomenal rate and we’re looking for top privacy engineer to join our growing engineering team

The Senior Privacy Engineer is a project contributor, technologist, and liaison with expertise in technical dimensions of data protection and privacy. 

They will be responsible for creating a data protection and privacy compliance architecture by structuring an approach to manage the organization’s data privacy practices, policies, and technologies, ensuring compliance with regulations, and protecting individual privacy rights. 

They will work closely with the Data Protection Office, data producers and analysts, product managers, and software engineers to implement privacy-enhancing technologies and tools and incorporate privacy by design/default principles into various solutions.

Knowledge and Competencies

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to influence without authority.

• Demonstrated ability to manage risk strategically and tactically and deliver initiatives to advance the maturity and soundness of the control environment in an ambiguous and complex environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, able to create compelling arguments and influence across all levels of the organization.

• Excellent relationship building skills to partner effectively across diverse, cross-functional teams in complex and rapidly changing environments. 

• Highly motivated to contribute to global, multi-functioning teams and grow within a complex area of emerging importance.

• Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills, with strong learning agility and willingness to embrace and lead through change.

• Understanding of software applications, design tools, and languages.

• Understanding of design for software applications running on multiple platforms.

• Understanding of testing, coding, and debugging procedures.

• Demonstrated working knowledge of software engineering fundamentals.

• Competency in the interpretation of numeric data and understanding of statistical principles.

• Competency in data literacy including finding and managing data, cleansing data, manipulating data.

• High competency in using current programming languages and technologies, such as Java, JavaScript, Python, and HTML, create a solid design, write code, complete programming, perfors application testing and debugging, and complete documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.

• Ability to perform operations on large datasets

Responsibilities and Tasks

• Develop and implement solutions to ensure privacy policies are correctly implemented to advance compliance with regulatory data use forms, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other data protection and privacy regulations, and support business data use.

• Develop and implement a data privacy governance framework to ensure policies, procedures, and guidelines for handling personal data across the ecosystem and throughout the data lifecycle, including data tagging and mapping, data privacy taxonomies, data hygiene, and destruction.

• Work to align advanced technologies and Privacy by Design/Default principles from the first stages of design/development and ensure that the data used meets established regulatory compliance needs. 

• Collaborate with data product development teams, creating new data uses that employ privacy features.

• Interact with internal Data Protection Officer, privacy program managers, product development teams, legal, compliance, governance, and data protection teams. 

• Analyze, design, and program software enhancements for new data streams to develop technical solutions and systems to help mitigate privacy vulnerabilities and prevent potential future privacy risks.

• Manage the data protection and privacy policies, data usability, performance, and the integrity of the privacy program platform.

• Prepare and maintain (or ensure maintenance of) data protection program documentation, including personal data records of processing activities (ROPAs), data mapping and inventories, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), and data breach/incident records and conducts periodic compliance assessments of these.

• Assist in the management and performance of data subject access requests (DSARs) in compliance with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other data protection and privacy regulations.

• Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications and integrations to new or existing software. 

• Assist in the development and maintenance of policies, standards, playbooks, and standard operating procedures that support global privacy and data protection program objectives.

• Interact with other developers and architects to implement big data solutions that enable the business to be data-driven while protecting the data assets. 

• Interface with the usability team to ensure user-facing privacy controls are usable.

• Guide the use of data anonymization, pseudonymization, and encryption to develop systems that preserve and improve data privacy protections.

• Guide the development of new privacy products and features.

• Identify areas of improvement in local practices relative to managing data protection and privacy.

• Perform regular privacy assessments of operational processes, policies, and technologies, identifying and mitigating risks across the company through effective tools, training, and guidance.

• Communicate program progress, escalations, and issue analysis to key stakeholders.

• Act as a key interface to data science and analytics communities both within and outside of the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in either computer science, computer engineering, information systems, privacy engineering or equivalent experience; an advanced degree and/or specialized data protection / privacy / security training is a plus.

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience working with multiple facets of a global corporate privacy program, at least 2 years of which with a high degree of independence.

• Working knowledge of key global privacy legislation, including but not limited to GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.

• CIPT, CDPSE certification or equivalent.

• Strong software development skills. 

• Experience and comfort in preparing and leading presentations and discussions in a business setting.

• Experience with report/technical writing and management, capable of conducting data protection and privacy compliance assessments and audits.

• Experience in supporting the alignment of governance materials, policies, and procedures.

Perks

• Competitive salary
• Outstanding health benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• 100% 401k match (up to the IRS-defined limit per year).
• Travel around the world
• Work with a respected, high-performing team that works collaboratively and supports each other.
• Work from home, forever!
• ‘Flex Fridays’
• And more!

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The Linux Foundation is creating the greatest shared technology investment in history by enabling open source collaboration across companies, developers and users. We are the organization of choice to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.

Salary range: $90,000-$160,000 USD

The Linux Foundation is an all-remote workforce that hires world class talent.  We are as passionate about providing a flexible and supportive work culture as we are about open source software. Collaboration is in our DNA, and we pride ourselves on being able to work closely together while not being tied to an office. We offer exceptional benefits - e.g., top of the line healthcare plans paid by employer, unlimited PTO, and 100% 401k match up to the IRS-defined limit per year.

The Linux Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.