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Privacy Engineering works to empower Twitter to build great products and systems which respect the privacy of the people and organizations who use them. We strive to inspire and enable products that are respectful from day 1, make it much easier to do right and much harder to do wrong, and galvanize timely and responsible recovery when things go awry.

As a Privacy Engineer, you'll play a meaningful role in our product development process, closely partnering with Twitter's many product and engineering teams to embed sound technical privacy practices in everything we ship and help uncover risks before they become issues.

You will spend a good deal of time spelunking - in other words, exploring the many nooks and crannies of Twitter's products and services, uncovering places where we might want to update the way we look after some data or institute a new privacy-preserving technology. You will take system designs or implementations, find the important privacy issues lurking inside, and suggest and drive robust designs to fix them.

You'll influence Twitter’s engineering roadmap, share your passion for the privacy engineering mission, and are excited to teach and ready to learn.

• Privacy domain expertise and experience in technical privacy review to find common failures, good design patterns, and tradeoffs.

• Mastery of technical privacy issues within the software and systems development lifecycle, identifying common hurdles and solutions to effective privacy and security.

• Builds deep and lasting partnership across subject areas and teams (e.g. engineering, legal, policy). History of challenging the status quo while remaining pragmatic and championing trust with partners.

• Strong command of business, user, and technical requirements, and can identify and manage sophisticated privacy dependencies in large-scale systems.

• Leads, engages, and operates within the goals of partner teams and effectively works with them to integrate privacy into their designs and roadmap.

• Designs, implements, and evolves privacy engineering principles, culture, and standard methodologies. Coaches teammates as customer and value-focused privacy engineers.

• History handling privacy incidents through investigation, fixes, and resolution.

• Experience in human-centric threat modeling, data anonymization, and/or other privacy-preserving techniques, process, or technologies.

• B.S. and/or M.S. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or relevant work experience that demonstrates the aforementioned privacy domain qualifications.

Preferred:

• Experience in code review in one or more general purpose languages.

• Experience with developing or debugging microservice architectures or distributed systems.

Additional Information: 

Our team values the following: 

Flexibility - Our team's work is dynamic and fluid, so our team members thrive when they approach their roles with a flexible mindset.

Diversity - Diversity makes us a better organization and team. We value diverse backgrounds, ideas, and experiences.

Work, Life, Balance - We work hard, but we believe with hard work should come balance.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Preferred:

• History handling privacy incidents through investigation, fixes, and resolution.

• Experience in human-centric threat modeling, data anonymization, and/or other privacy-preserving techniques, process, or technologies.

• Experience in code review in one or more general purpose languages.

• Experience with developing or debugging microservice architectures or distributed systems.

Notice (Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act)

The expected salary range for this role to be performed in Colorado is USD$167,000.00 - USD$234,000.00. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for participation in Twitter’s Performance Bonus Plan and Equity Incentive Plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Twitter offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Twitter's benefits prioritize employee wellness and progressive support to our diverse workforce.