This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Privacy Engineer based in Canada . As a Senior Privacy Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and developing technology that protects users' privacy across digital products and services. You will lead complex engineering projects, build innovative privacy solutions, and help strengthen protections against online tracking and emerging threats. Working within a distributed, remote-first engineering team, you will take ownership of major technical components from initial planning through implementation and ongoing improvement. You will collaborate across teams to ensure new features and product developments uphold strong privacy standards. The role offers opportunities to contribute to privacy-focused search technologies, AI-powered experiences, and advanced tracking protection systems. You will also participate in privacy reviews, support engineering best practices, and mentor colleagues as the team grows. Accountabilities - Lead high-impact, complex engineering projects from initial proposal and technical planning through implementation, deployment, and post-project evaluation. - Design, develop, and maintain privacy-preserving systems and features that protect users across search technologies, AI experiences, browsers, and related digital services. - Build and improve systems that enhance search indexes and AI capabilities while maintaining robust user privacy protections. - Develop and extend crawler-based technologies to identify, analyze, and address emerging online tracking methods and privacy threats. - Implement, maintain, and optimize privacy features, including web tracking prevention and email protection capabilities. - Write pragmatic, efficient, maintainable, and testable code using technologies such as Go, Node. js, Python, and, where appropriate, Perl.





- Take ownership of critical privacy technology components, ensuring their reliability, security, scalability, and continuous improvement. - Participate in privacy reviews, technical audits, and product assessments to ensure engineering decisions and new developments align with established privacy principles. - Navigate ambiguous technical challenges, identify practical solutions, and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to deliver effective outcomes. - Communicate technical decisions, project progress, and privacy considerations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. - Mentor fellow engineers, share technical knowledge, and contribute to the professional development and long-term growth of the privacy engineering team. Requirements: - Significant skilled experience in software engineering, with demonstrated expertise in developing and maintaining privacy-focused technologies or solutions. - Strong technical understanding of online privacy threats, tracking mechanisms, and the technologies and approaches used to mitigate them. - Practical experience building privacy solutions in an engineering role, such as tracker blocking, differential privacy, or comparable privacy-enhancing technologies. - Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Go, Node. js, Python, or Perl. - Proven ability to lead complex, high-impact technical projects from concept and planning through delivery, maintenance, and retrospective analysis. - Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to work through ambiguous requirements, evaluate trade-offs, propose innovative approaches, and execute solutions effectively. - Experience designing reliable, performant, maintainable, and well-tested software systems. - The ability to collaborate effectively across functions, involve stakeholders when needed, and communicate technical concepts and decisions to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise.

📌 Senior Privacy Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 Canada