Snap
Privacy Engineer, Level 4
$133K–$235K
Los Angeles, California +3 · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
Palo Alto, California
New York, New York
Bellevue, Washington - Experience
- 2+ years of post-bachelor’s relevant experience; or a master’s degree in a technical field plus 1+ year of post-graduate experience; or a PhD in a relevant technical field.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and scale privacy controls and privacy-preserving approaches for Snap’s advertising systems, including ads ranking, targeting, measurement, and machine learning.
What you'll do
- Design and implement production privacy controls; lead privacy reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments.
- Partner across engineering, product, legal, security, and data teams to translate privacy requirements into controls and drive remediation.
- Develop privacy-preserving advertising and measurement approaches, auditing practices, and technical solutions; evaluate ML privacy risks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of post-bachelor’s privacy, security, software engineering, or related experience; or a master’s degree in a technical field plus 1+ year of post-graduate experience; or a PhD in a relevant technical field.
- Expertise in one or more areas such as privacy engineering, privacy reviews, data governance, privacy-safe advertising or measurement, privacy-preserving machine learning, or security engineering.
- Experience with applied privacy techniques and knowledge of consent, preference, identity, and tracking technologies, including ATT and opt-out mechanisms.
Nice to have
- Experience securing or privacy-enabling complex distributed systems and production-scale infrastructure.
- Experience with privacy threat modeling, leakage or attack assessments, privacy-control validation, or privacy-preserving ML and embeddings.
Pay
$157,000-$235,000 annually (USD, base salary); $149,000-$223,000 annually (USD, base salary); $133,000-$200,000 annually (USD, base salary)
Tools
ATT
AI focus
Use AI tools to streamline development and audit generated output; evaluate privacy-preserving approaches and risks in machine-learning systems, including leakage, attacks, and embeddings.
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