Senior Technical Privacy Analyst
Remote - Americas
- Support
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.
- Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
- Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
- Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
- Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
- Bring critical thought and opinion
- Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
- Work digital-first for your daily work
About the role
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 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:
Understanding of software development, to assess privacy risks and effectively collaborate with developers on implementing solutions
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