Backend / API Engineer, Privacy Products
Role Overview
This senior backend/API engineer role focuses on building privacy products for Stripe, including external tools like data access portals and APIs, as well as internal infrastructure such as data pipelines and libraries. The engineer will work cross-functionally with product, legal, and ops teams to enhance Stripe's privacy posture, impacting both customers and internal systems. Day-to-day responsibilities involve designing, building, and extending privacy solutions to manage user data and regulatory requirements.
Perks & Benefits
Based on typical tech roles at companies like Stripe, this position likely offers remote work flexibility with locations in San Francisco and Seattle, implying options for in-office or hybrid setups. Career growth is supported through collaboration with cross-functional teams and impactful work on critical privacy infrastructure, fostering a culture of innovation and user trust. Benefits may include competitive compensation, health insurance, and opportunities for professional development in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
Full Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Privacy products’ mission is to build trust that Stripe is a responsible steward of user’s data while managing privacy risk and enabling business growth. The team does this by building industry leading privacy products and foundational privacy infrastructure. These products provide: transparency to our users about Stripe’s data practices, choices and controls to our users about their data, and solutions to our customers to manage their privacy. The infrastructure we build allows Stripe engineers to meet our users’ expectations and regulatory requirements for how Stripe handles and safeguards user data. Stripe’s operating principles focus on putting users first. This means the businesses built on Stripe and consumers who use payments through Stripe need to trust Stripe to process their data. Protecting our user’s data and prioritizing privacy is how we put users first.
What you’ll do
As a privacy products engineer at Stripe, you’ll build products that our customers and consumers use to manage their privacy needs. The customer facing product portfolio includes data access tooling (Data Access Tool) within a privacy portal and a new redaction API. The non-customer facing portfolio includes internal libraries and tooling such as cookie and consent frameworks and data access and deletion pipelines. Your role heavily impacts Stripe's overall privacy posture, and you'll collaborate cross-functionally with product owners, engineering teams, privacy legal, and ops teams. Your work is not only impactful; it is critical to the long-term success of Stripe and our users.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and extend external facing privacy products such as the data access tool and privacy portal
- Build API products for customers to help them manage their privacy requirements
- Build internal tools for other Stripe teams to help manage their privacy requirements
- Build and extend our data access and deletion pipelines
- Collaborate with our users and on cross-functional teams to extend our privacy systems
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 6+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
- Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
- Able to work well individually, cross-team, and cross-functionally
- The ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and implementing technical solutions to address them
- Experience with complex data pipelines over large datasets
- Experience designing and building user-facing privacy tools
- Experience with Ruby or Java in production environments
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