6 months ago
Responsibilities
- Build, improve, deploy, and operate privacy processing systems for erasure requests, opt-outs, access requests, objections, PII redaction, and compliance workflows.
- Own problems end-to-end from issue identification and system design through implementation, production deployment, monitoring, and operational follow-through.
- Write technical designs documenting problems, approaches, trade-offs, and implementation plans, and drive stakeholder alignment.
- Drive projects to completion by breaking down ambiguous problems, communicating progress, and shipping incrementally.
- Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and build observability and alerting for production systems.
- Review code, share knowledge, mentor teammates, and make proactive improvements to the codebase.
- Coordinate with Identity, Data Platform, Data Governance, Streaming Platform, Legal, and Compliance teams.],
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Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building, scaling, and operating production web applications.
- Extreme ownership of problems, including cleanup, technical debt, and operational follow-through.
- Willingness to work deeply in a Ruby/Rails codebase; prior Ruby/Rails experience is not required.
- Genuine curiosity about privacy engineering and the technical challenges of the privacy domain.
- Fluency with AI coding tools in daily development workflows and the ability to rigorously review AI-generated output.
- Experience with privacy or compliance systems, GDPR/CCPA, or data subject request processing is preferred.
- Experience with BigQuery, BigTable, or large-scale data processing is preferred.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and Kafka is preferred.
- Experience in regulated domains where correctness has legal consequences is preferred.
Benefits
- The posting does not specify compensation, benefits, or work arrangement.
- Applicants should be prepared to interview within one week, with the interview loop targeted for completion within 30 days; the process includes a live pair-programming session using the applicant’s own IDE.
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