Senior Technical Privacy Analyst

We’re looking for curious and detail-oriented individuals to join Shopify’s Privacy Engineering team as a Senior Technical Privacy Analyst.

As a Senior Technical Privacy Analyst, you’ll apply both your software development and privacy expertise, along with your knowledge of Shopify’s products, applications, and infrastructure, to understand and manage privacy risks. You’ll independently read code to verify how our systems operate, and recommend any changes needed to mitigate privacy risks. You’ll explain how our privacy systems work to internal stakeholders, and collaborate with them to recommend improvements. You’ll also work with others to validate the scope of any reported privacy issues.

This role will provide an opportunity to:

• improve technical privacy controls across Shopify’s entire stack
• research new privacy enhancing technologies and how they could be used to improve Shopify’s privacy program
• collaborate with product, engineering, data, legal, and security teams to investigate potential privacy issues and recommend solutions
• utilize data and key metrics to understand, communicate, and drive Shopify’s privacy program
• develop and share privacy best practices

Qualifications

We need people with experience in the following areas:

• Writing software, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Working with privacy regulations including GDPR and CCPA
• Building and maintaining controls and safeguards to simplify privacy practices
• Reviewing and writing technical documentation

It would be great if you had experience in one or more of the following (don’t stress, we are not expecting experience in all of the following!):

• Cloud technologies, containerized environments, and infrastructure as code
• Big data technologies like Spark, DBT, and BigQuery
• Information security fundamentals, privacy and compliance standards
• Creating and maintaining trusted relationships
• Preparing and delivering technical presentations