2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy, priorities, and multi-quarter direction across Shopify’s privacy engineering domain.
- Architect, prototype, and implement privacy infrastructure such as DSAR orchestration, PII redaction pipelines, consent management, and privacy enforcement systems.
- Solve multiple complex technical problems in parallel, including redesigning petabyte-scale data pipelines and building new privacy architectures.
- Drive cross-functional coordination across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Product, and Data teams.
- Author foundational technical designs covering system boundaries, data models, and architectural patterns.
- Improve the cost, performance, reliability, and operational health of privacy infrastructure.
- Set engineering standards through code, reviews, designs, and operational practices.
- Mentor engineers and raise the reliability and technical quality bar across teams.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, production coding ability, and high-level system design expertise.
- Hands-on experience building and optimizing large-scale data processing systems with measurable performance or cost improvements.
- Experience architecting and scaling high-throughput, real-time data systems handling millions of requests per day.
- Fluency integrating AI coding tools into a daily engineering workflow.
- 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 improving team reliability.
- Experience or strong interest in building privacy-domain systems.
- Preferred: experience with BigQuery, Bigtable, Kafka, or Flink.
- Preferred: experience with major system redesigns and regulated domains where correctness has legal consequences.
- Preferred: familiarity with GDPR and CCPA and their technical requirements.
Benefits
- Candidates should be prepared to interview within one week of applying, with Shopify targeting completion of the interview loop within 30 days.
- The interview process includes a live pair-programming session, and 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