Software Engineer (Leadership) – Sensitive Data Team

Here at Meta, we have a commitment to the users of all our platforms to honour their Privacy in everything we do. Working on Privacy at Meta will give you the opportunity to build products and systems to improve Privacy and enable millions of users to be in control of their data across Meta products and services. Ensuring that Meta is a trusted steward of users’ information and uses people’s data appropriately and in accordance with Privacy policies is a top priority for the company.

The Sensitive Data team is based in London and consists of engineers, product & program managers, data scientists, legal counsel and policy experts who are passionate and driven to improve the privacy of sensitive data for our users’ worldwide. We create solutions, build products and infrastructure and research new privacy-enhancing technologies that enables Meta to govern and protect the sensitive data we process.

In our team, you will provide the leadership direction and expertise necessary to identify innovative solutions for highly ambiguous Privacy problems across the Sensitive Data space. You will develop and efficiently execute Privacy strategies across our products, and partner with organizations and technical leaders across the company. Join us!Software Engineer (Leadership) – Sensitive Data Team Responsibilities

• Understand the technical ramifications of new Sensitive Data Privacy legislation across the world
• Drive the teams’ strategy and technical direction across Meta’s systems and products to satisfy Sensitive Data Privacy goals
• Design and implement critical pieces of shared product infrastructure to satisfy Sensitive Data Privacy goals across Meta’s products and systems
• Partner & collaborate with organization and technical leaders across the company to guide Sensitive Data Privacy goals
• Provide mentorship and support to senior engineers in the Privacy org

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
• Experience in driving large cross-functional and industry-wide engineering efforts
• Significant experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications, tools, platforms or similar experience
• Significant experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
• 5+ years of industry experience in a domain with compliance requirements (e.g. supporting audits, or designing systems to be easily audited)

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Software, Product or Privacy Engineer in the domains of Data Privacy, Data Lifecycle and Governance
• PhD in Privacy, Security or Programming Languages

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