1 day ago
Brooklyn, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$178k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical architecture and scaling of marketplace-wide privacy platforms with strong reliability, observability, and performance.
- Build and optimize consent and preference management, data access and deletion request, classification, and Safety by Design systems.
- Partner with Legal and Product to translate compliance requirements into APIs, data models, and implementation plans.
- Create reusable privacy-preserving developer patterns, paved paths, and documentation.
- Contribute production code, make build-versus-buy decisions, and drive technical quality through architecture and code reviews.
- Monitor privacy metrics, mitigate architectural risks, participate in support rotations, and automate operational toil.
- Mentor and pair with engineers while driving execution and alignment across teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience or Staff-level equivalent experience leading architecture and delivery for complex, ambiguous systems.
- Strong hands-on expertise building reliable backend platforms, APIs, and distributed systems within large codebases.
- Proficiency in at least one production language such as PHP, Python, Java, or Go.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP, service observability, CI/CD, and production incident response.
- Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs and build alignment across Product, Legal, and Engineering.
- Experience translating policy requirements with legal, compliance, security, and risk partners into scalable engineering controls.
- Foundational knowledge of privacy by design, data minimization, access controls, data pipelines, metadata systems, PII discovery, classification, and lineage.
- Background in software engineering, security engineering, privacy engineering, or a closely related technical discipline; legal or regulatory experience is welcome.
Benefits
- Equity package, annual performance bonus, and competitive benefits supporting employees and their families.
- Candidates are prioritized within commutable distance of Etsy’s Brooklyn office, with in-office attendance once or twice per week depending on proximity.
- Remote candidates outside commuting distance may be considered case by case, with occasional travel to the office expected.
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About Etsy
Etsy operates a global e-commerce marketplace for handmade, vintage, and craft-supply goods, connecting independent sellers with buyers worldwide. It earns revenue through listing and transaction fees, payments, shipping, and seller services such as advertising. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Etsy is publicly traded on Nasdaq and also operates marketplaces like Depop and Reverb.