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Senior Privacy Engineer (Future Opportunities)

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Twitter logoTwitter · San Francisco, CA
Full-timeOn-site42mo ago
Threat Modeling
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Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with cross-functional partners across Engineering and Product to embed sound technical privacy practices in everything we ship and help uncover risks before they become issues;
  • Proactively explore Twitter's products and services to identify improvements in the way we look after data or institute a new privacy-preserving technology;
  • Identify important privacy issues within system designs or implementations, and suggest and drive robust designs to fix them.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in technical privacy review to find common failures, good design patterns, and trade-offs;
  • Possess strong privacy domain knowledge;
  • Solid command of technical privacy issues within the software and systems development lifecycle: Keen ability to identify common hurdles and solutions to effective privacy and security;
  • Ability to grasp business, user, and technical requirements, and can identify sophisticated privacy dependencies in large-scale systems;
  • Ability to build close partnerships across subject areas and teams (e.g. engineering, legal, policy);
  • Ability to challenge the status quo while remaining pragmatic and championing trust with partners;
  • Experience leading, engaging and operating within the goals of partner teams, and effectively working with them to integrate privacy into their designs;
  • Experience implementing and continuing to evolve privacy engineering principles, culture, and standard methodologies;
  • Ability to coach teammates as customer and value-focused privacy engineers.
  • History of 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.
  • San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
  • Twitter provides reasonable accommodations during the recruitment and hiring process upon request. Information received relating to accommodations will be addressed confidentially. To request an accommodation, please contact accommodation@twitter.com.
  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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