Software Engineer Lead, Privacy

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, or Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków.

We believe this balanced, flexible approach gives our team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust, unlocks creativity, and further fuels innovation.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada.

The opportunity 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams rely on Grammarly’s AI-enabled communication assistance to help them communicate confidently and achieve their goals. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category for individuals, enterprises, and developers with tailored service offerings: Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, Grammarly for Education, and Grammarly for Developers. All of this begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

Privacy is critical to Grammarly’s mission. Having a solid privacy posture is a complex and demanding challenge. It requires a talented and dedicated team embedded with the rest of the company. To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Tech Lead to join our Privacy Engineering team. This role involves multiple responsibilities centered around advancing our privacy posture and ensuring we adhere to our privacy principles.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As the Privacy Tech Lead, you will be building privacy-related services and tools, implementing user-facing privacy-related features, and reviewing/analyzing designs of systems and product features being created across the company for privacy issues and optimizations. Also, as a senior member of the Privacy team, you will help shape the long-term privacy strategy and help build out the team.

The challenges of this role include balancing protecting our users' privacy while enabling delightful and impactful product features and working with product, engineering, and legal organizations to understand all the requirements to develop viable solutions and tradeoffs. This role also involves defining the long-term strategy for the Privacy function and aligning it with Grammarly's overall strategy, and delivering privacy-related services and product experiences that meet Grammarly's high standards of operational excellence and usability.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has a good understanding of general concepts around data privacy.
• Is familiar with privacy concerns that apply in an industry setting, including consent, deletion, and retention, and a basic understanding of regulations such as GDPR.
• Can review system designs and product feature specs for deviations from our privacy policies and suboptimal privacy choices.
• Has a good grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures. 
• Is a great communicator and active listener.
• Has strong analytical, diagnostics, and troubleshooting skills.
• Has a proven ability to work in a multi-team environment and cross-functional setup.
• Can write correct, concise, readable, and extendable code.
• Is effectively able to judge technical talent for the Privacy team.