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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.
The Senior Privacy Compliance Engineer joins the team to ensure merchant, customer, and partner data remains protected and compliant with regulations like CCPA and GDPR. This role involves reviewing technical designs for privacy risks, assessing existing controls against internal standards, and building internal tooling to automate compliance at scale. You will perform code reviews, audit machine learning pipelines for personal data handling, and collaborate with Legal, Product, and Engineering teams to prioritize risks. The position requires proficiency in cryptography, hashing, encryption, and large-scale data infrastructure. Candidates must be experienced developers capable of reading codebases, writing code to build tools from the ground up, and utilizing AI-assisted development. You will solve complex privacy problems by evaluating whether the correct technical mechanisms are configured properly across the platform.
Differential Privacy
Federated Learning
On-device Processing
Tokenization
Data De-identification
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
AI
ML
GDPR
CCPA
Software Development
Data Governance
Model Inference Privacy
Differential Privacy
Private Federated Learning
Generative AI
Machine Learning
Foundation Models
Privacy Engineering
Data Collection Systems
Programming
GenAI
System Architecture
Data Protection
Data Privacy
Consent Architecture
Classification Frameworks
Retention Policies
Access Controls
Infrastructure Engineering
Gap Discovery
Compliance