Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance San Francisco, California, United States, Seattle We're looking for a Software Engineer to architect and build backend systems that enforce data privacy and automate compliance at scale. You'll work closely with product, infrastructure, security, and legal teams to embed privacy-by-design into our data and access layers. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for an experienced engineer who is passionate about protecting user data while enabling innovation. What You'll Do - Design, build, and operate backend services that enforce policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections. - Develop distributed authorization and identity-aware enforcement mechanisms integrated directly into data services and control planes. - Implement auditability, policy hooks, and enforcement observability to ensure compliance is continuously verifiable. - Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance to convert privacy requirements into scalable technical designs and developer-friendly APIs. - Harden data platforms and backend services through schema-level controls and data handling constraints by default. - Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistent enforcement across systems while minimizing duplicated implementations. - Contribute patterns, libraries, and education that elevate trustworthy data access patterns across the organization. You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have - 5+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production. - Strong software engineering fundamentals , with fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, C++, Java). - Experience with distributed authorization, RBAC/ACL systems, encryption-based access, or policy engines. - Familiarity with global privacy regulations and

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