Jason A. Novak, Google
We are in the second decade of privacy engineers being hired in industry and the process has professionalized at all levels. From the backgrounds that applicants come from to the way that candidates are screened to job descriptions to how interviews are conducted. This talk aims to: demystify the privacy engineering job market as it currently exists; to empower privacy engineers (current and prospective) in their career growth; and educate privacy engineers on hiring processes and practices.
Jason Novak (jasonanovak.com) is a Sr. Staff Privacy Engineer at Google where he works on cross company privacy initiatives including AI data protection. Prior to Google, Jason led the Privacy Engineering teams at Cruise and Apple where he helped teams develop new infrastructure products to enhance user privacy including anomalous data access alerting, Wi-Fi MAC address randomization, and Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention. In these roles, Jason has screened, interviewed, and hired many Privacy Engineers.
author = {Jason A. Novak},
title = {Career Advice for Privacy Engineers: From Resume to Interview to Finding the Next Job},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
