Senior Privacy Engineer

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

COMPLIANCE

What We Do

The Epic Compliance team works across multiple functions to support the company's effort to comply with applicable laws and regulations. We define the strategy for scaling compliance across our Epic.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for an experienced Privacy Engineer to design and scale innovative Data Governance solutions. This is a highly technical role with broad impact, where you will identify, design, build and lead cross-functional Data Governance initiatives across our products and services.

In this role, you will

• Collaborate with security, legal, technology services and data teams to ensure privacy by design into new products and features.
• Contribute to the overall Privacy roadmap and drive forward the development of policies, standards, guidelines and best practices, and to facilitate coordination across multiple stakeholders.
• Design, develop and use Privacy Infrastructure (e.g. data catalog, classification, lineage) to enable Data Protection at scale.
• Design and integrate technical privacy controls and safeguards into Epic’s data platforms.
• Research, apply and provide guidance on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
• Drive complex, cross-functional Privacy Engineering initiatives from concept to delivery.

What we're looking for

• Demonstrated experience as a Privacy Engineer, Security Engineer, Data Engineer or Software Engineer working on large scale data analytics and distributed systems.
• Programming skills in one or more languages with hands-on expertise in designing and building privacy controls into production systems.
• Familiarity with data analytics and modern data engineering practices.
• Ability to translate regulatory frameworks into actionable technical requirements and scalable solutions.
• Strong systems thinking and problem solving skills, with experience in data flow analysis, threat modeling and privacy impact assessments.
• Deep understanding of privacy concepts such as data minimization and retention, de-identification, encryption and access control.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and regulatory concepts clearly across engineering, product and legal teams.

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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