That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze.
Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻.
Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍.
Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally.
(Ambitious? 💪Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here).
Now, we’re on the lookout for a Principal Engineer - Identity & Privacy to help us bring that vision to even more travellers.
About the role(Hybrid)As our Principal Engineer for Identity & Privacy, you’ll shape the technical foundations that help us earn traveller trust while safely unlocking the data and AI capabilities behind brilliant product, personalisation, experimentation and advertising experiences.
This is a senior technical leadership role with impact right across Skyscanner.
You’ll own the technical strategy and set standards for identity, consent and privacy engineering across our traveller-facing products, data platforms and operational systems — spanning web, app, backend, experimentation, analytics, advertising and machine learning.
What you’ll be doingSetting our technical strategy: You’ll define and communicate the long-term vision and roadmap for identity, consent and privacy engineering, aligning it with our product strategy, traveller trust goals and data and AI ambitions.
Shaping identity at scale: You’ll lead our technical approach to purpose-scoped identifiers and consent-aware data processing across sessions, tracking, advertising, accounts, consent and derived identifiers.
Connecting the dots end-to-end: You’ll establish how identity and consent state flows from web and app surfaces through backend services, event streams and data pipelines to downstream consumers.