Senior Engineer, Privacy Engineering

Shopify

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About Shopify

Shopify is a leading global commerce platform that enables businesses of all sizes to start, grow, and manage their retail operations online and in-person. It provides tools for storefronts, payments, shipping, and marketing to millions of merchants worldwide.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, Privacy Engineering

As a Senior Engineer on the Privacy Engineering team, you will build and operate critical infrastructure that protects the privacy rights of millions of merchants and customers. You will design, implement, and maintain systems for data subject requests, PII redaction, and compliance tooling. Your daily work involves solving ambiguous technical problems with legal consequences, writing tech designs, and participating in on-call rotations. You will utilize Ruby/Rails, BigQuery, BigTable, Kafka, and Terraform to develop these solutions. Additionally, you will leverage AI tools like Claude Code and Pi for code generation and system investigation. This role requires navigating cross-team dependencies across Identity, Data Platform, and Legal to ensure privacy by default across the entire platform.

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What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and operate systems for processing erasure requests, opt-outs, and data access requests.
  • Own technical problems end-to-end from initial identification through production deployment and monitoring.
  • Write and document technical designs to align stakeholders on problem approaches and trade-offs.
  • Break down ambiguous problems into well-scoped issues and drive projects to timely completion.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents to maintain system health.
  • Build observability and alerting systems to catch production issues before they escalate.
  • Perform thorough code reviews and mentor team members to improve the overall codebase.
  • Coordinate with Identity, Data Platform, and Legal teams to navigate cross-team dependencies.

What we're looking for

  • Demonstrate strong software engineering fundamentals in building, scaling, and operating production web applications.
  • Possess the ability to solve ambiguous problems and drive them to concrete technical solutions.
  • Show willingness to work deeply within a Ruby/Rails codebase.
  • Maintain fluency with AI coding tools as part of a daily workflow.
  • Demonstrate extreme ownership of problems from identification through production deployment and operational monitoring.
  • Exhibit a genuine curiosity about the privacy domain and its technical challenges.
  • Experience with privacy/compliance systems, GDPR/CCPA, or data subject request processing (preferred).
  • Experience with BigQuery, BigTable, Kafka, or large-scale data processing (preferred).

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