2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate systems for erasure requests, opt-outs, access requests, objections, PII redaction, and privacy compliance workflows.
- Own problems from discovery and technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and operational follow-through.
- Write technical designs, explain trade-offs, and drive alignment with stakeholders.
- Break down ambiguous problems, drive projects to completion, and communicate progress clearly.
- Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and build observability and alerting.
- Review code, share knowledge, mentor teammates, and improve the codebase.
- Coordinate with Identity, Data Platform, Data Governance, Legal, and Compliance across organizational boundaries.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building, scaling, and operating production web applications.
- Ability to solve ambiguous problems, understand system dependencies, and make sound technical trade-offs.
- Commitment to end-to-end ownership, including cleanup, technical debt, and operational follow-through.
- Willingness to work deeply in a Ruby/Rails codebase.
- Genuine interest in the technical challenges of privacy engineering.
- Fluency with AI coding tools and ability to rigorously review AI-generated code.
- Preferred: experience with privacy or compliance systems, GDPR/CCPA, data subject request processing, BigQuery, BigTable, large-scale data processing, Kafka, or regulated domains.
Benefits
- The role includes on-call and incident-response responsibilities.
- Candidates should be prepared to interview within one week, with the goal of completing the interview loop within 30 days.
- The interview process includes a live pair-programming session using the candidate's own IDE.
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