Senior Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

Discord; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 94,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Discord is seeking a Senior Privacy Engineer in Amsterdam to embed privacy into products and operations. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal to assess privacy risks, review code and architecture, and ensure compliance with Discord's Privacy Principles and regulatory requirements.

The role focuses on designing privacy-preserving solutions, advancing DPIAs, RoPA, and data subject rights processes, while automating evidence collection and program workflows using Python and

Qualifications

• Experience designing privacy programs and DPIAs.
• Operational knowledge of GDPR and global privacy laws.
• Automating privacy compliance and RoPA workflows.
• Ability to automate evidence collection with Python and AI tooling.
• Strong written communication and cross-functional influence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal to perform privacy impact assessments and reviews.
• Develop data privacy policies and controls aligned with industry frameworks.
• Design privacy-preserving product solutions and promote privacy posture across teams.
• Lead privacy impact analysis on incidents and validate remediations.
• Contribute to central privacy systems for data subject rights and automation.

Tools

OneTrust

BigID

TrustArc

Job description

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there's one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Discord is on a mission to create space for everyone to find belonging. Trusted by millions of people to keep their communications private and out of the hands of evildoers, Security and Privacy are necessary to Discord's success.

We're looking for a Senior Privacy Engineer to join us in Amsterdam and shape how we build privacy into our products and operations. If you pair deep privacy technology and compliance fluency with a builder's instinct for automation and system design, read on!

What you will do:

• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal to conduct privacy impact assessments, code and architecture reviews, and ensure compliance with Discord's Privacy Principles and regulatory requirements.
• Develop actionable data privacy policies in order to drive the creation and monitoring of controls that ensure adherence, grounding Discord's privacy posture in industry frameworks.
• Design privacy-preserving product solutions, act as a privacy subject matter expert across teams, and identify new opportunities to promote our privacy posture.
• Lead privacy impact analysis on production incidents and conduct technical validation on remediations and external responses.
• Shape and contribute to our central privacy systems: From evidencing automation to data subject rights fulfillment, you will use your technical skills, privacy expertise, and AI tooling chops to scale the team's work.

What you have:

• A passion for user privacy and data protection.
• 4+ years of experience in a technical privacy or data protection role. Example projects could include implementing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), data classification and discovery, and developing data subject rights systems.
• Working fluency of GDPR as an operational and technical standard, and awareness of the broader privacy compliance landscape (CPRA/CPPA, EU AI Act, etc).
• Experience automating privacy compliance, such as the development of DPIAs, maintaining data maps and records of processing (RoPA), and assessing vendor/processor risk.
• Ability to automate evidence collection and program workflows (e.g. Python and AI tooling), and comfort reading system and data architecture well enough to evaluate privacy risks and design mitigations.
• Strong written communication and the ability to influence across Engineering, Product, and Legal. Occasional virtual meetings with employees in US timezones may be necessary
• Fluent English required.

Bonus Points:

• Experience leading privacy incident response and regulator engagement.
• Familiarity with privacy tooling (e.g. OneTrust, BigID, TrustArc).
• Exposure to AI governance and the EU AI Act.
• Experience working across EU and US time zones.
• Hands-on experience building and monitoring a privacy or security control framework (e.g. ISO 27701, ISO 27001, or NIST Privacy Framework).

The base salary range for this full-time position is €94,000 to €117,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in NL role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Amsterdam, NL Area and attend the office 1-2 days a week.

Why Discord?
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.