Senior Staff Engineer - Privacy

Job Summary

Defining the technical strategy for privacy at scale, the full-time remote Senior Staff Engineer - Privacy will identify key problems, design systems, and drive execution across teams to enhance Shopify's privacy infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Define technical strategy across the privacy domain and influence the privacy roadmap in partnership with Legal, Compliance, and Data leadership
• Drive cross-functional coordination to ensure alignment across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Product, and Data for effective privacy enforcement
• Author foundational technical designs that set system boundaries and architectural patterns for ongoing development

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience writing production-grade code and system design
• Proven expertise in building and optimizing large-scale data processing systems with measurable improvements
• Experience architecting and scaling high-throughput, real-time data systems handling millions of requests per day
• Fluency with AI coding tools integrated into daily engineering workflows
• Demonstrated track record of cross-functional influence and driving multi-quarter technical strategy across teams