Principal Engineer, Privacy

Skills

About the Role

You will set technical strategy and architecture for privacy across products, research and training data, internal tooling and multiple clouds. You will lead company-critical privacy initiatives, architect data governance primitives, turn regulatory obligations into enforced technical controls, mentor senior engineers and represent privacy engineering externally.

Requirements

• Track record as a Principal engineer or equivalent setting technical direction across teams
• Deep experience applying privacy engineering principles in large-scale production systems
• Experience architecting data governance infrastructure across distributed systems and cloud
• Proficiency in Python, Go or similar languages
• Understanding of privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
• Strong written and verbal communication

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical strategy and architecture for major privacy areas
• Lead the highest-complexity, company-critical privacy initiatives
• Architect privacy primitives: data discovery, classification, lineage, purpose-based access control, audit, retention, deletion and export
• Turn regulatory, contractual and consent obligations into verified technical controls
• Anticipate changes in AI capabilities, regulation and customer expectations
• Mentor staff and senior staff engineers and help hire senior privacy talent
• Represent Anthropic's privacy engineering to customers, regulators and standards bodies

Benefits

• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Visa sponsorship