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About Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is a technology and camera company, best known for Snapchat, offering visual communication, augmented reality, and advertising products.
Snap Inc. currently has
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Listed pay typically runs
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The Privacy Engineer, Level 4 joins the Security team to build privacy into ads ranking and targeting systems. This role involves partnering with engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams to translate complex requirements into production-ready controls that protect users while maintaining product utility. The engineer will develop scalable privacy-preserving approaches, conduct threat modeling, perform risk assessments for data flows and APIs, and evaluate machine learning systems for leakage risks. Key technical competencies include experience with differential privacy, anonymization, cryptography, and privacy-preserving computation. Candidates must possess software engineering fundamentals like data structures and algorithms, alongside expertise in consent, preference, identity, and tracking technologies such as ATT. The role focuses on solving the challenge of maintaining high-velocity development and robust advertising measurement while ensuring rigorous standards for security and privacy across the entire ads ecosystem.
Privacy Engineering
AI
Data Governance
Identity and Access Management
Cloud Infrastructure
Security Automation
Code Scanning
Data Minimization
Policy Codification
Machine Learning
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Caffe2
Spark ML
scikit-learn
System Design
Search
Content Understanding
Image Generation
AI Tools
Data Analysis
Production Deployment