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Principal Data Protection Engineer

2 Locations💼 Full-time💰 $131,000–$181,000🗓 2026-07-15 → 2026-07-30

Core

Lead the design, development, and automation of data protection capabilities embedded across enterprise platforms and services, focusing on privacy-by-design architectures and AI-enabled solutions.

Role type

Principal Data Protection Engineer (Technical Lead)

Builds

Production-grade APIs, data protection services, automation tooling, and agentic agents for secure data workflows.

Domain

Digital Infrastructure / Cybersecurity / Privacy Engineering / AI Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Data protection engineering, privacy engineering, secure data architecture, RESTful/gRPC API design, Python, Go (Golang), threat modeling, CI/CD automation, cloud platform operations (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), data governance and compliance.

Preferred skills

AI and agentic systems integration, privacy-preserving ML, open-source technology evaluation, advanced programming in additional languages.

Technologies

Python, Go (Golang), Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub Actions, RESTful APIs, gRPC, API gateways.

Responsibilities

Design and implement data protection controls across data lifecycle layers; define privacy-by-design patterns for platforms and AI systems; develop and deliver production-grade APIs for data protection capabilities; build integrations and automation pipelines for security and privacy workflows; evaluate and integrate AI technologies for data protection and enforcement; lead technical implementation from design through production.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on technical leader with strategic oversight

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