Senior Privacy Compliance Engineer

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopify, United States, is seeking a Senior Privacy Compliance Engineer to protect merchant, customer, and partner data and ensure privacy by design. You will review designs, build tooling, and drive privacy controls at scale.

You will work with Legal Privacy, Data, Product, and Engineering to align with CCPA, GDPR, and internal standards while addressing novel privacy challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience protecting privacy and building privacy tooling.
• Knowledge of encryption, hashing, and salting for privacy guarantees.
• Familiarity with data regulation like CCPA/GDPR is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review technical designs for privacy risk across data domains.
• Assess controls for compliance with CCPA, GDPR, and internal policies.
• Build and maintain internal tooling to support the privacy program.
• Review PRs and provide engineering support for internal tools.
• Collaborate with Legal Privacy, Data, Product, and Engineering teams.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Data privacy

Cryptography concepts

Encryption hashing salting

Large-scale data

Code review

Internal tooling

AI-assisted development

Collaborative work

Job description

# Senior Privacy Compliance EngineerUnited States3 hours agoID 5627538Price on request## DetailsEmployment type: Full-timeRemote: YesCompany: Shopify## DescriptionAbout the role Shopify powers millions of entrepreneurs around the world. Behind that scale is a massive amount of data; merchant data, customer data, and partner data. Our Privacy Compliance Engineers make sure that data stays private, protected, and compliant with the regulations that govern it. This is not a traditional security engineering role. You won’t be hunting software bugs. You’ll be hunting privacy problems, reviewing technical designs before they ship, assessing existing controls against CCPA, GDPR, and our own internal standards, and building the internal tooling that helps the team do that work at scale. You’ll collaborate daily with Legal, Product, Data, and Engineering teams across Shopify, and you’ll be expected to hold your own in those rooms. The work is broad. One day you’re auditing how a machine learning pipeline handles personal data. The next you’re reviewing a PR, fixing something that broke in a tool you helped build, or working through a novel privacy question with Legal that nobody has a clean answer to yet. Responsibilities • Reviewing technical designs for privacy risk across merchant, customer, partner, and employee data • Assessing existing controls for compliance with CCPA, GDPR, and Shopify’s internal privacy policies • Building and maintaining internal tooling that automate and support the compliance program; this team ships software • Reviewing PRs and providing engineering support to keep internal tools running • Partnering with Legal Privacy, Data, Product, and Engineering teams to surface and prioritize privacy risk • Applying your understanding of cryptography, hashing, encryption, and large-scale data infrastructure to evaluate whether the right mechanisms are in place and configured correctly Qualifications • You’re an experienced developer who genuinely has an interest in protecting privacy and wants to innovate on the right approaches • You understand how encryption, hashing, and salting work and why the implementation details matter for privacy guarantees • You have a working understanding of how AI and machine learning systems interact with personal data; and you see that as an interesting problem, not an impossible one • You’re comfortable with AI-assisted development; we use it here and we expect you to use it too • You can read a codebase, write code when needed, and build internal tooling from the ground up • You’ve worked with large-scale data infrastructure before, either on the engineering or the privacy side Source: Jobspresso (https://jobspresso.co/job/senior-privacy-compliance-engineer/)This listing comes from a partner feed. Apply on the source website.Source:ShopifyShare Listing provided by Shopify.Price on requestApply on the source websiteActive until Dec 11, 2026