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Privacy Engineer- Red Team, Privacy and Data Protection Office

AT TikTok
TikTok

Privacy Engineer- Red Team, Privacy and Data Protection Office

San Jose, CA

Responsibilities

About the Team
PDPO(Privacy and Data Protection Office) is the organization to lead, supervise, and empower all TikTok's privacy work in an accountable and industry leading way. This team is the expert in the landscape of privacy risks and passionate about consulting across the company on implementing the proper safeguards and technical mitigations to ensure that our users' privacy is honored across the TikTok's products and platforms.

What you'll do:
- Conduct technical assessments focused on finding privacy issues in internal and external facing systems, products, and services.
- Partner with Engineering teams to optimize SDLC testing.
- Support the development of practices, processes, mechanisms, and the documentation for these activities, both internally and with working groups.

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- Build tooling to automate portions of assessments

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Strong Computer Science, Security engineering and Privacy engineering fundamentals
- Able to collaborate, prioritize duties, and work well on your own
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a high attention to detail

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ years work experience in web security or data security
- Experience in Penetration Testing or Red Team exercises
- Ability to understand and apply privacy foundational concepts

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience making contributions to the security or privacy community, such as public research, blogging, presentations, bug bounties, CVEs, etc.
- 2+ years work experience with scripting language including code maintenance and review
- Experience implementing or assessing the implementation of GDPR, CCPA, or equivalent privacy regulation
- Experience with tools used to perform Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) or Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Experience with common testing frameworks, such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $355000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA, USA
Job ID: TikTok-7490828955697957128
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • HSA
    • Life Insurance
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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