Senior Privacy Engineer
The Team:
Upstart’s Privacy Engineering team builds the systems, tools, and technical controls that help protect borrower, applicant, partner, and Upstarter data across our products and platforms. The team works across Engineering, Security, Legal, Compliance, Product, Data, and Machine Learning to make privacy-by-design practical and scalable.
As a Privacy Engineer II at Upstart, you will build software and services that embed privacy controls into the core architecture of Upstart’s products and technical systems. You will help implement privacy-enhancing technologies, data minimization patterns, and governance tooling that support responsible data use across Upstart’s AI lending marketplace.
How you’ll make an impact
Design, build, and operate privacy engineering services that support user control, data governance, anonymization, pseudonymization, retention, deletion, and auditability
Implement privacy-by-design patterns and data minimization controls across Upstart’s products, services, data pipelines, and machine learning systems
Build APIs, libraries, services, and developer tools that help engineering teams standardize privacy enforcement across the technology stack
Partner with Security, Legal, Compliance, Product, Data, Machine Learning, and Infrastructure teams to translate privacy requirements into clear technical specifications
Support privacy reviews, data flow assessments, and technical risk assessments for new products, data uses, and platform capabilities
Improve the reliability, observability, and maintainability of privacy systems through testing, monitoring, documentation, and thoughtful technical design
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, and 3+ years of experience in software engineering
Experience building and operating production software systems using programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, Scala, C++, Rust, or similar languages
Experience building APIs, microservices, libraries, or backend services that support data governance, privacy controls, security controls, or data platform capabilities
Experience with at least two privacy or security domains such as anonymization, pseudonymization, data retention, deletion, data lineage, access control, encryption, audit logging, or data minimization
Experience translating privacy, security, compliance, or data protection requirements into software systems or technical workflows
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of privacy-by-design principles, privacy-enhancing technologies, purpose limitation, consent, retention, deletion, and data subject rights
Experience with data governance systems, data catalogs, lineage tooling, personally identifiable information detection, redaction, or automated policy enforcement
Experience supporting privacy reviews, threat modeling, data flow mapping, or technical risk assessments for production systems
Experience working with machine learning systems, financial services, lending, or another regulated data environment
Ability to communicate privacy engineering tradeoffs clearly across technical, legal, compliance, product, and business audiences
Travel requirements As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S but are encouraged to to still spend high quality time in-person collaborating via regular onsites. The in-person sessions’ cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days at a time.
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At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by 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.
In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).
United States | Remote - Anticipated Base Salary Range
$164,800—$228,400 USD