Privacy Engineer, Customer Identity

Our client, the leader in the SaaS Identity space has an outstanding Client Platform Engineer opportunity to join their dynamic team. This is a fully remote contract role.

Contract Duration: 6-Months

Duties:

The Role

We seek a knowledgeable and development -focused Privacy Engineer to take the privacy of our Customer Identity products, customer data, and infrastructure to the next level.

This role is a key member of the Privacy team embedded within the Customer Identity product unit and works across multiple functions to solve data privacy challenges to support the growth of our global Customer Identity business.

We are an engineering-focused team that seeks to build software services for cutting edge of privacy technology and implement controls to mitigate the privacy threat landscape.

In this role you will work as part of a globally distributed team of talented engineers who share a passion for data privacy and enjoy solving complex problems at scale.

This role works closely with Product Engineering, , Data Engineering and Privacy legal stakeholders to deliver on data privacy strategy for Okta s customer identity products

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with cross-functional partners across Engineering, Legal, Data and Product to embed sound technical privacy practices in everything we ship and help uncover risks before they become issues
• Contribute towards development of new privacy features, tools, and scalable solutions to optimize the work of the Privacy Engineering team and enable us to deliver privacy-centric solutions for our internal and external stakeholders
• Foster a forum of data stewards to operate as an extended support team for privacy engineering initiatives
• Collaborate with Privacy Engineering leadership for annual planning, prioritizations and progress management
• Build, deploy & maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure services as well as privacy solutions for customer identity products
• Support privacy investigations in coordination with the Okta Legal and Compliance teams, participate in root cause analysis and perform necessary remediations.

What this position is not:

• Security engineering, incident response, dedicated code reviews, or compliance focused

Skills:

"Requirements:

• You have 3+ years of hands-on development experience writing microservices with at least one of the following languages
• Go
• JavaScript
• You have 3+ years of experience performing technical privacy or security reviews, recommending good design patterns, and identifying trade-offs
• You have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following:
• Database principles including familiarity with SQL, noSQL, and DBT
• Privacy automation and orchestration
• Privacy impact assessments
• Data inventory and classification
• User data protection and data loss prevention
• Encryption, data anonymization, pseudonymization,
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills
• You have experience working with a globally distributed and remote team.

Bonus points if:

• You have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following:
• Full-stack engineering
• Data pipelines and event streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Protocol buffers
• Identity and access management
• Governance, risk and compliance
• GDPR, CCPA / CPRA, or other privacy regulations
• Data pipelines for large scale systems
• Data privacy in cloud environments (AWS, Azure)
• Data privacy in large scale data system (Snowflake)
• Data privacy in NoSQL data stores including MongoDB"