Senior Privacy Engineer (Americas)

About 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 dataAssessing existing controls for compliance with CCPA, GDPR, and Shopify's internal privacy policiesBuilding and maintaining internal tooling that automate and support the compliance program; this team ships softwareReviewing PRs and providing engineering support to keep internal tools runningPartnering with Legal Privacy, Data, Product, and Engineering teams to surface and prioritize privacy riskApplying 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 approachesYou understand how encryption, hashing, and salting work and why the implementation details matter for privacy guaranteesYou 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 oneYou're comfortable with AI-assisted development; we use it here and we expect you to use it tooYou can read a codebase, write code when needed, and build internal tooling from the ground upYou've worked with large-scale data infrastructure before — either on the engineering or the privacy side About Shopify Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option. About You Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone. Before you apply, consider if you can: Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyoneExcel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowthKeep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) changeBring critical thought and opinionPut AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they're built for, and focus on the work only humans can doEmbrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forwardWork digital-first for your daily work We may use AI-enabled tools to screen, select, and assess applications. All AI outputs are reviewed and validated by our recruitment team.