Senior Privacy Engineer I

Company Description

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, or Depop you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human

Job Description

What’s the role?

The Privacy Platform team is responsible for building systems and collaborating with other platform and infrastructure teams to ensure user data is processed or accessed according to user expectations. As Etsy’s engineering systems become increasingly complex, our role in supporting user privacy alongside fast-moving business goals makes the work dynamic, challenging and rewarding.

The Privacy Platform team is seeking a Senior Privacy Engineer to craft and help lead our privacy-by-design offering, as well as contribute to the building of privacy-protecting systems. As we partner with product, infrastructure and legal teams on privacy reviews, we are looking for an engineer who can understand various problem spaces and proposals, map those proposals to privacy best practices and policies, and collaborate with both the software engineers on our team and stakeholders from other teams to clear a privacy- path forward. The right candidate can also ship code against our internal platform engineering objectives when able. This role is technical and requires strong interpersonal skills, and your success will be measured by your ability to understand, interpret and unblock the work of other teams while defending our team mission to protect privacy.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Privacy Platform. The base salary range will be $155,000 to $181,000 USD per year. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy.  For this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States, however candidates living within commutable distance of the Etsy Brooklyn Hub, or within the San Francisco area, will be the first to be considered. Even if located within commuting distance of an office, you will have the option to work office-based, flex, or remotely. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Review product or technical documentation and apply your privacy expertise to identify risks. When possible, provide guidance directly, otherwise confer internally to help craft a path forward.
• Build a network across the company to build trust, actively explore and establish domain expertise proactively.
• Find documentation opportunities, craft it, and test its usefulness with partner teams. We iterate with everything we do!
• Communicate progress on tracks of work, solicit feedback, and use that feedback to grow
• Contribute to hands-on software engineering efforts when able
• Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law

Qualifications

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• Technical background, both hands-on-keyboard coding and systems design
• Understanding of privacy regulations, and how techincal implementations map to them. Instincts for privacy tradeoffs, risks and harms.
• Experience with writing or reading PHP, Python, and/or any other language with the willingness to learn new ones as necessary as Etsy uses a diverse set.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, especially Google Cloud Platform products will be very helpful
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to provide clear, meaningful, constructive feedback to peers to support their growth
• We are looking for a thoughtful and collaborative privacy engineer to help advance our team’s mission to support user privacy and our company mission to Keep Commerce Human. We encourage you to apply even if you don