Privacy engineering is rapidly gaining significance across all sectors in industry. As privacy is a socio-technical issue, there are multiple backgrounds and perspectives which are relevant to solving the problems at hand. In this panel, we will hear from senior people in the privacy engineering field about their experiences as well as their (diverse) backgrounds and career paths in privacy engineering. The panel will also focus on lessons encountered in the process of engineering privacy and the perspectives that the panelists have found useful to better navigate the field.