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About Upstart
Upstart is an AI lending platform that partners with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit using non-traditional variables.
Upstart currently has
54 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$166,900–$230,900
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Senior Privacy Engineer
The Senior Privacy Engineer joins the Privacy Engineering team to build systems, tools, and technical controls that protect borrower, applicant, partner, and employee data. You will design and operate privacy engineering services that support user control, data governance, anonymization, pseudonymization, retention, deletion, and auditability. Your daily work involves building APIs, libraries, and developer tools to standardize privacy enforcement across the technology stack while implementing privacy-by-design patterns in data pipelines and machine learning systems. You will use programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, Scala, C++, or Rust to translate legal and compliance requirements into technical specifications. This role addresses the challenge of making privacy-by-design practical and scalable within a regulated financial services and AI lending marketplace environment.
Design, build, and operate privacy engineering services for data governance, anonymization, and auditability.
Implement privacy-by-design patterns and data minimization controls across products and machine learning systems.
Build APIs, libraries, and developer tools to standardize privacy enforcement across the technology stack.
Translate privacy requirements from legal and compliance teams into clear technical specifications.
Conduct privacy reviews, data flow assessments, and technical risk assessments for new products.
Improve the reliability and observability of privacy systems through testing, monitoring, and documentation.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
3+ years of experience in software engineering.
Experience building and operating production software systems using languages such as Python, Go, Java, Scala, C++, or Rust.
Experience building APIs, microservices, libraries, or backend services for data governance, privacy controls, security controls, or data platform capabilities.
Experience with at least two privacy or security domains such as anonymization, pseudonymization, data retention, deletion, data lineage, access control, encryption, audit logging, or data minimization.
Experience translating privacy, security, compliance, or data protection requirements into software systems or technical workflows.
Knowledge of privacy-by-design principles, privacy-enhancing technologies, purpose limitation, consent, retention, deletion, and data subject rights (preferred).
Experience with data governance systems, machine learning systems, financial services, or other regulated data environments (preferred).
Differential Privacy
Private Federated Learning
Generative AI
Machine Learning
Foundation Models
Privacy Engineering
Data Collection Systems
Programming
Privacy Engineering
Data Protection
Python
Java
Go
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
AWS
Azure
GCP
SQL
NoSQL
Data Loss Prevention
Encryption
Tokenization
Anonymization
DevSecOps
NIST
ISO 27001
HITRUST
FIPS
PCI DSS
HIPAA
GDPR
CCPA/CPRA
System Design
Full Stack Development
GenAI
Data Classification
Data Protection
Privacy Engineering
Metadata Catalog Management
Consent Management
Automation
Dashboards
Security Frameworks