Beacon · 13 hours ago
Privacy Engineer
Beacon is an early-stage health technology company focused on building a large-scale clinical data platform to enhance innovation in life sciences and AI-driven healthcare. The Privacy Engineer role is centered on developing and operating scalable de-identification systems to protect patient privacy by removing or masking protected health information across extensive datasets.
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Responsibilities
Collaborating with privacy leadership and clinical experts to define detailed de-identification rules across structured data, text, images, and signals
Developing software to apply de-identification logic at scale, processing billions of records and millions of images monthly
Designing and executing quality assurance processes to validate privacy safeguards
Operating and optimizing de-identification pipelines in cloud environments to improve accuracy, efficiency, and cost effectiveness
Qualification
Required
2+ years of professional software development experience in Python or a comparable language
Experience across the full software development lifecycle
Working knowledge of SQL and command-line tools (e.g., Bash)
Ability to design, document, and improve operational workflows and QA processes
Strong analytical judgment and organizational skills
Practical problem-solving mindset and persistence
Collaborative, humble approach to teamwork
Genuine interest in protecting sensitive patient data
Preferred
Experience working with large datasets and data structures such as Pandas DataFrames
Prior deployment of software in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure)
Familiarity with containerization or virtualization tools
Exposure to healthcare or clinical data
Experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders to implement software solutions
Company
Beacon
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