Senior Privacy Engineer II - San Francisco, United States - Cruise

Description

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

We're building the world's most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

In our cars, you're free to be yourself. It's the same here at Cruise. We're creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work.

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

Privacy Engineering's mission is to make Cruise the model for privacy in the self-driving field. It's crucial to our work to build and maintain trust with customers and employees—through privacy preserving products and services built on top of robust privacy enhancing infrastructure, policy, and clear communications.

We are seeking a Senior Privacy Engineer with experience in driving privacy-enhancing solutions to protect the privacy of consumers, employees, candidates, and contractors. This role will entail, in part, an operational component, reviewing applications, product features, and projects for privacy impact; delivering privacy requirements; and guiding implementation of those requirements. This role will also entail driving key privacy products and projects, in collaboration with Privacy Infrastructure, in pursuit of 1) scaling Cruise's response to data subject requests (e.g., data access, correction, deletion, opt-out) and 2) scaling Cruise's capabilities for discovery, mapping, and tagging of personal data.

You should be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders, from those less technical (e.g., individuals working on the People or Finance Org, product managers) to much more technical roles (e.g., engineering managers, data scientists, and developers) - thus, you should be comfortable working with engineers to discuss technical approaches to implementing privacy requirements, and validate that implementation sufficiently meets privacy objectives.

You should also be comfortable in uncharted territory as we build unique privacy technologies and grow user trust. We need your skills and passion to make it happen. Candidates could work in the office (if SF- or Seattle-based) or remotely.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing project and product roadmaps in conjunction with Privacy Infrastructure collaborators, breaking quarters-long efforts into discrete actionable plans, and tracking and communicating progress.
• Reviewing applications, product features, and projects for privacy impact and collaborating with teams to develop privacy mitigations at all levels of the stack.
• Working with teams across Cruise to ensure that we are aligned with privacy laws and regulations from a technical perspective.
• Guide system owners in implementing privacy protections -- including data governance, de-identification, role-based access, secure authentication, logging and alerting -- on existing systems.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest architectural advancements, understanding how architecture impacts privacy and security.
• Collaboration within and outside the security organization to achieve privacy.

What you must have:

• Excited about privacy and to be on the cutting edge of privacy problems.
• 5 or more years of experience in privacy or security.
• Experience driving privacy requirements for systems/applications, and creating novel solutions to regulatory requirements. Experience with concepts and practices such as: data governance, data subject access & deletion requests, de-identifying data, role-based access, secure authentication, logging and alerting, cookie management, geolocation, machine learning, IoT privacy and security challenges, and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience assessing sensitivity of different data, including risks of re-identifiability across systems.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: data discovery, authentication, logging, auditing, or alerting.
• Perseverance and negotiation skills with a track record of achieving good user outcomes.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate across subject areas (e.g. engineering, legal, policy).
• Familiarity with privacy laws, regulations, standards, and best practices such as CCPA (including data subject access & deletion requests), GDPR, and ISO
• Candidates must have the ability to develop work with minimal direction, maintain and report against a work plan, provide updates and status reports, given scope and objectives.

Bonus points

• Experience standing up/maintaining access & deletion processes, driving processes such as:
  • Updating data inventories,
  • Classifying data according to sensitivity/identifiability to individuals,
  • Collaborating cross-functionally (e.g., with Legal) to determine what data is in and out of scope for CCPA/GDPR obligations,
  • Working with system and data owners to determine the technical approaches to providing access & deleting data upon request, and
  • Validating, alongside system owners, data owners, and Security compliance team, that the data we expect to delete after a deletion request is effectively deleted.
• CIPP or CIPT privacy certification
• Security background
• Experience reviewing code for privacy and security issues

The salary range for this position is $168, ,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

  
  
• Competitive salary and benefits
• 401(k) Cruise matching program
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
• Healthy meals and snacks available for non-remote employees
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
• CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that's best for you, whether it's primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here

• We're Integrated

  
  
• Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

• We're Funded

  
  
• GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.

• We're Independent

  
  
• We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.

• We're Vested

  
  
• You won't just own your work here, you'll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow. We offer a new kind of equity program called Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO), which combines IPO-like liquidity with the stability of remaining private - learn more about RLO here

• We're Safety Conscious

  • We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You'll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, caste, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.

Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email

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Candidates applying for roles that operate and remotely operate the AV: Licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding your application, currently holding an active in-state regular driver's license or equivalent, and no more than one point on driving record. A successful completion of a background check, drug screen and DMV Motor Vehicle Record check is also required.

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