Privacy Engineer

Shopify is a leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media such as Pinterest and Facebook, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides a merchant with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business.

We are looking for developers to meet this challenge by building and enhancing our systems to protect this information and keep our systems compliant with privacy regulations all over the world.

You will be helping protect the personal information of millions of people and improving the trust people have in online commerce.

You’ll need to have:

• Experience with Rails or the desire to learn it quickly
• Extensive software development experience - proficient with things like software design patterns, code review, a variety of languages, TDD, etc
• Interest in developing creative ways of balancing the needs of a fast-growing platform and privacy protection
• Curiosity about how systems, both legal and software, work

It’d be great if you have experience with:

• Building and scaling user-focused web applications
• Developing web applications, especially Ruby on Rails and Javascript
• Developing systems that are compliant with a regulatory regime (anti-spam laws, privacy laws, consent decrees, etc.)
• Developing for Spark or similar technologies
• Database technologies including MySQL and Postgres
• Data warehouse technologies such as Vertica or HDFS