Principal Engineer - Identity & Privacy

Privacy-engineering experienced: You’ve translated privacy and data-protection requirements — including GDPR, PECR, CCPA/CPRA or equivalent global frameworks — into practical engineering decisions, working effectively with Legal, Privacy, Security and Data Governance partners.

Built for scale: You’ve designed, built and operated large-scale distributed systems across identity, data platforms or adjacent areas such as consent, authentication, advertising technology or customer data infrastructure.

An influential technical leader: You’ve led significant technical change across multiple teams without direct line authority, creating clarity, alignment and momentum when ownership is distributed.

Strong in technical judgement: You’re comfortable making decisions where product value, traveller trust, privacy requirements, operational reliability and cost are all competing for a seat at the table.

End-to-end minded: You can reason confidently across client surfaces, backend services, event streams, data products, ML features, analytics, partner exports and operational tooling — and understand how a decision in one part of the system can ripple through the rest.

Practical about standards: You know how to turn policy into technical controls and measurable quality standards that teams can consistently use in real systems, rather than another document destined for a forgotten browser tab.

Clear, collaborative and credible: You can create shared engineering practices, write clear technical strategy and work effectively with senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Legal, Security and Data Governance. Familiarity with privacy and consent technologies, experimentation, personalisation, advertising measurement, Databricks, OpenTelemetry or SQL is valuable but not essential — as is practical experience using AI tools to make engineering work smarter.

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