Senior Privacy Engineer

What you'll do

• Design and operate privacy services for user control, governance, anonymization, retention, deletion, and auditability.
• Build APIs, libraries, services, and developer tools that standardize privacy controls across products, data pipelines, and machine learning systems.
• Partner across teams to translate privacy requirements into technical specifications and support privacy reviews and risk assessments.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience and experience building and operating production software systems.
• Experience building APIs, microservices, libraries, or backend services supporting governance, privacy, security, or data platform capabilities.
• Experience in at least two privacy or security domains and translating privacy, security, compliance, or data protection requirements into software systems or workflows.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of privacy-by-design principles, privacy-enhancing technologies, and data subject rights.
• Experience with data governance systems, privacy reviews, machine learning systems, financial services, lending, or regulated data environments.

Pay

$164,800 — $228,400 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, Go, Java, Scala, C++, Rust

AI focus

Implement privacy controls and data minimization across machine learning systems used in Upstart’s AI lending marketplace.