Principal Data Privacy & Governance Engineer
Microsoft
New York, United States, U.S.
Full-Time
Posted Sep 25, 2025
4 days / week in-office
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About the role
Microsoft AI (MAI) is seeking an experienced Principal Data Privacy & Governance Engineer to help build mission applications and platform components for our personal AI, Copilot systems.
Responsibilities
- Build tools in the areas of data security, privacy and governance products in distributed data, cloud platform environments.
- Work collaboratively with other Platform, infrastructure, application engineers as well as AI Researchers to build next generation automated data governance systems.
- Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.
- Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years' experience building scalable services on top of public cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Extensive use datastores like RDBMS, key-value stores, etc.
- 3+ years experience in collaborating with engineering, product, legal, and compliance teams to embed privacy-by-design principles and build automated scalable governance mechanisms into our data infrastructure.
- 3+ years experience in building data lineage tracking, proactive alerting mechanisms monitoring and enforce compliance with internal standards and external regulations.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401k matching
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
About the Company
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Job Details
Salary Range
$139,900 - $274,800/yearly
Location
New York, United States, U.S.
Employment Type
Full-Time
Original Posting
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