About the Privacy Architect
Do you think Privacy in Social media is an issue? Do you want to work in a company that puts its money where its mouth is? (and is silent elsewhere?). If so, then please read our verbose job ad.

Our “Privacy Architect” (or more affectionately, “Privacy Tsar”) is someone who both understands and can implement solutions towards making our privacy guarantees to users both possible and efficient. It is imperative that this person have a healthy curiosity and mind for business development.

Not unlike its close industry cousin of Security Penetration or “Black Hat Hacker,” the Privacy Tsar is someone who is technically capable and creative enough to help developers, operations engineers, and business to come up with solutions. We position includes heavy-lifting web architecting as well as knowledge of various systems. This is a very tech-heavy position, and to put it into context… we do not really know anyone who can do it, so we are hoping the internet will provide.

Our ideal Privacy Tsar is light-years beyond philosophizing regarding user default settings. Our Privacy Tsar checks for “back doors” to the user data, comes up with solutions to difficult release-engineering issues which are complicated by our self-imposed, yet strict data-handling rules. Likewise, Our Privacy Tsar is not afraid to tell us the bad news and fix them.

If you have an interest in working within our parameters, can get creative, and nothing gets past you, we are ready to welcome you with open arms.

Job Responsibilities:

Implement and participate in ongoing development of privacy policies.
Interact with developers, operations, and management to supervise the implementation of policy.
Develop tools and infrastructure for monitoring of internal controls.
Review logs and alerts to verify compliance with internal controls.
Oversee rare cases where developers need access to production machines.

Qualifications and Experience:

Candidates will have server-side expertise in a languages such as Ruby, Erlang, or Python, in combination with significant systems administration expertise and expert-level skills in C/C++ or Java.
Additional language experience in other languages, especially Lisp, Scheme, or Haskell is desired. Experience working with working with relational databases (ex: Postgres, MySQL), document databases (ex:CouchDB)or distributed hash-based solutions (ex: MongoDB, Cassandra, Tokyo Cabinet) is important. Candidates will have expertise in security and applied cryptography, including public key implementation and practical systems security.

Candidates will be able to represent users’ interests and challenge internal decisions which impact on privacy guarantees provided to users. Candidates will be able to function independently, and must be able to oversee the technical work of others and verify that developers or administrators code and actions do what they say they do.

Strong candidates will combine strong skills as a developer with significant privacy and security awareness, and a sense of frustration with the way privacy is normally handled, and a desire to do it better.

E-mail cover letters and resumes to: hr@borderstylo.com

STATUS:
Full-Time

Application Instructions

Thank you for checking out our current job openings.

If you are interested in applying, please submit your resume and cover letter to Phil Hitzeroth, Border Stylo, 7257 Beverly Blvd., Ste. 210, Los Angeles, CA 90036.

Hint: Most important to us is a good cover letter. We have a few members who didn’t have a CV, but wrote really inspiring cover letters.