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Software Engineer, Privacy and Trust Infrastructure

Google.com

141k - 202k USD/year

Office

Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA

Full Time


Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with software development in C++ programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
  • 2 years of experience with Buganizer.
  • 2 years of experience with system design.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 2 years of experience with SQL and data analytics.
  • 1 year experience with MapReduce, Big Data, Logs Analysis, Large-scale Data Processing.
  • Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems for IT or OT.

About The Job

The team's mission is to raise the trust bar for our users by launching responsible personalization infrastructure for Knowledge and Information (K&I)'s products, and improving operational privacy by committing our privacy promises to code. This team is dedicated to developing privacy-focused software infrastructure that helps with continuous compliance of user data use. Beyond compliance, this also includes the proactive development of privacy enhancements and improvements designed to better meet user privacy needs. This involves comprehensive assessments, evaluation, investigation, and recommendations to mitigate privacy threats originating from unexpected use of user data for product and user experience improvements. This work spans infrastructure-level privacy enforcements and offline data monitoring/mitigation for privacy-focused user-data handling, all to help make confident and impactful privacy promises to users and earn their trust.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Implement assigned components of privacy-focused infrastructure and product enhancements by writing product or system development code for tasks with minimal assistance.
  • Contribute to cross-functional alignment related to assigned project component(s), understand how work fits in with related projects and components, including dependencies. Improve each other's work by reviewing code developed by others and providing feedback to ensure best practices.
  • Triage service issues and debug/track/resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and their impact. Contribute to the technical activities beyond coding, such as Reliability monitoring and alerting, Integration testing, and production hygiene and support processes.
  • Deliver high-quality work aligned to team or company goals in a timely and efficient manner, taking responsibility for work successes and failures. Ensure completed work is of consistently high quality, writing well-factored, testable, resilient, and documented code.

Software Engineer, Privacy and Trust Infrastructure

Office

Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA

Full Time

141k - 202k USD/year

October 8, 2025

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