22 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy, priorities, and multi-quarter direction across Shopify’s privacy engineering domain.
- Design and build privacy infrastructure including DSAR orchestration, PII redaction, consent management, compliance tooling, and privacy-enforcing event pipelines.
- Solve multiple high-value problems across unfamiliar areas, including large-scale redaction and consent architecture.
- Drive coordination across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Product, Data, Identity, Data Platform, Data Governance, and Streaming Platform teams.
- Author foundational technical designs covering system boundaries, data models, and architectural patterns.
- Improve the cost, performance, reliability, and operational health of privacy infrastructure.
- Prototype and experiment with emerging technical approaches and regulatory requirements.
- Mentor engineers and establish standards for technical excellence, code quality, system design, and operational practices.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, production coding ability, and high-quality system design skills.
- Hands-on expertise building and optimizing large-scale data processing systems with measurable performance and cost improvements.
- Experience architecting and scaling high-throughput, real-time data systems handling millions of requests per day.
- Fluency integrating AI coding tools into daily engineering workflows.
- A track record of cross-functional influence across engineering, legal, compliance, and data platform teams.
- Experience driving multi-quarter technical strategy across teams.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising reliability standards across a team.
- Experience with, or strong interest in, building systems in the privacy domain.
Benefits
- Preferred experience includes BigQuery, Bigtable, Kafka, and Flink.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with domain-changing system redesigns, GDPR and CCPA, and regulated systems where correctness has legal consequences.
- The hiring process aims to complete the interview loop within 30 days, with interviews expected within one week of applying.
- The interview process includes a live pair programming session; candidates should bring their own IDE.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Shopify
Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more. Find all our jobs here: www.shopify.com/careers