Privacy Engineer III, Platforms Security and Privacy

Google is looking for a Privacy Engineer III to join its Platforms Security and Privacy team in Zürich, onsite, on a full-time basis. The company’s Security team aims to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google’s users and developers, actively monitoring systems for attacks and working with software engineers to identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities. You’ll help shape the privacy posture of key features and infrastructure that power Android and Google’s core products that run on Android, and you’ll advocate for Android users while helping meet regulatory requirements. If you like solving privacy challenges across complex systems and collaborating with cross-functional teams, this role could be for you.

Android powers more than 3 billion devices worldwide, and Google places a strong emphasis on keeping computing accessible while protecting user privacy. In this role you’ll influence the platforms, tools, and features that go into Android and Google’s broader suite of products, always keeping privacy at the forefront of engineering decisions. You’ll work with engineers, policy professionals, and privacy specialists to ensure that privacy considerations are embedded from the start and that requirements from regulations are upheld.

Shaping privacy across Android and Google's core products

Your day-to-day will blend rigorous analysis with practical design. You’ll run technical and quantitative evaluations to guide privacy decisions at scale, and you’ll help design and lead the implementation of privacy-enhancing solutions in collaboration with engineering teams. You’ll carry out privacy impact assessments for individual product components and bridge the gap between data governance, regulatory expectations, and engineering practices, ensuring a clear link between policy and product engineering. You’ll also create and maintain design and technical documentation to promote consistent privacy decisions across the organization.

What you’ll need to bring to the role

Must-have qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• At least two years designing privacy-focused solutions, evaluating proposed product or infrastructure designs, and guiding stakeholders
• Two years applying privacy technologies such as differential privacy or automated access management solutions, and adapting existing tools to fit organizational needs

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Comfort balancing risk decisions in ambiguous, multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience handling multiple high-priority requests and allocating time and resources effectively in a fast-changing setting
• Code review experience in one or more programming languages
• Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA or similar data protection frameworks

Tips to help you stand out in this application

Lead your resume with privacy-focused work. If you’ve evaluated a product feature or infrastructure component for its privacy impact and then recommended changes that lowered risk or improved compliance, put that front and center so recruiters can see your practical impact right away.

Show how you’ve used privacy technologies in real setups. Describe a concrete project where you applied tools like differential privacy or automated access management, and explain how you customized an existing framework to fit your organization’s needs.

Be ready to talk about how you handle ambiguity and competing priorities. Have a clear example of balancing risk across stakeholders, and demonstrate how you decided what to tackle first when resources were limited or timelines tight.

Ask a targeted question that signals you understand how privacy governance meets engineering. A good one is: what privacy assessment framework does the team use to bridge data regulations, governance, and engineering practices, and how is it applied to day-to-day product development?