Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering And Trust

Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering and Trust

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. The team's mission is to raise the trust bar for our users by launching responsible personalization infrastructure for Knowledge and Information products, and improving operational privacy by committing our privacy promises to code. This team is dedicated to developing privacy-focused software infrastructure that helps with continuous compliance of user data use. Beyond compliance, this also includes the proactive development of privacy enhancements and improvements designed to better meet user privacy needs. This involves comprehensive assessments, evaluation, investigation, and recommendations to mitigate privacy threats originating from unexpected use of user data for product and user experience improvements. This work spans infrastructure-level privacy enforcements and offline data monitoring/mitigation for privacy-focused user-data handling, all to help make confident and impactful privacy promises to users and earn their trust.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Implement assigned components of privacy-focused infrastructure and product enhancements by writing product or system development code for tasks with minimal assistance.
• Contribute to cross-functional alignment related to assigned project components, understand how work fits in with related projects and components, including dependencies. Improve each other's work by reviewing code developed by others and providing feedback to ensure best practices.
• Triage service issues and debug/track/resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and their impact. Contribute to the technical activities beyond coding, such as reliability monitoring and alerting, integration testing, and production hygiene and support processes.
• Deliver work aligned to team or company goals in a timely and efficient manner, taking responsibility for work successes and failures. Ensure completed work is of consistently quality, writing well-factored, testable, resilient, and documented code.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.