Privacy Engineer

Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and social interaction. They are seeking a Privacy Engineer to protect user data and enhance privacy through technical solutions and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure user privacy is upheld across all aspects of Discord, from data collection and processing through to deletion
• Develop technical tools and solutions that advance privacy at Discord, like enhancing privacy review processes through code and dataflow analysis and enforcing data minimization
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal, to conduct risk assessments, code and design reviews, and ensure compliance with Discord’s Privacy Principles and regulatory requirements
• Analyze privacy incidents for root causes and work with security and platform teams to ensure we are monitoring for new privacy risks

Requirements:

• A passion for user privacy and data protection
• 1+ years experience protecting user data and user privacy through tools or processes, such as code review, data mapping, and static analysis. You are familiar with privacy enhancing technologies
• You have a working knowledge of privacy by design and industry applications of consent, data deletion, and retention
• You can ship code in at least one general programming language (such as Python, JavaScript, Go, or Rust)
• You are familiar with privacy threat models like LINNDUN
• You have experience applying statistical privacy techniques like k-anonymization
• You are familiar with using modern AI tooling to gain leverage in your work
• Experience developing, operating, and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with modern cloud and data platform infrastructure
• Experience integrating internal systems with privacy and risk management platforms