Privacy Engineer at Discord in Remote

Summary: 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 collaboration with cross-functional teams. 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 Required Qualifications: - 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) Preferred Qualifications: - 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 Required Skills: User privacy protection, Privacy by design, Programming languages Important Skills: Privacy enhancing technologies, Statistical privacy techniques, Distributed systems, Cloud infrastructure Nice-to-Have Skills: Risk assessment, Data mapping, Code review, Data deletion, Consent management Benefits: Equity, Benefits