Staff Software Engineer, Privacy & Safety Regulations

Location: Brooklyn, New York
Salary range: USD $197,000 – $267,000 base
Workplace: In office
Level: Senior / Staff IC
Job family: Engineering
Posted: Recently

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $250k to $320k in New York. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P4 · asks for 7+ years · posts $197k to $267k base in New York · sets strategy beyond one team.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Etsy's posting.

Engineering role building the systems behind privacy compliance on Etsy's marketplace. The Privacy & Safety Regulations team builds platforms for consent and preference management, data access and deletion requests, data classification, and Safety by Design workflows. The team works with Product, Legal, Security, and Trust & Safety to make privacy-preserving paths the default for developers.

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What you'd do

Lead technical design and scaling of marketplace-wide privacy platforms for reliability and observability.
Build and optimize consent and preference management, data access and deletion request handling, and classification systems.
Translate legal compliance requirements into APIs, data models, and implementation plans with Legal.
Write paved-path templates, reusable patterns, and docs so developers default to privacy-safe features.
Write production code, weigh whether to build or buy, and raise quality through design and code review.
Join support rotations, supervise privacy metrics, and automate operational toil with self-service tooling.

What it asks for

7 years of software engineering experience or Staff-level equivalent leading architecture for complex systems.
Strong hands-on backend, API, and distributed systems experience in large codebases.
Proficiency in at least one production language such as PHP, Python, Java, or Go.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP, CI/CD, and production incident response.
Grounding in privacy by design, data minimization, access controls, PII discovery, and lineage.
Background in software, security, or privacy engineering; legal or regulatory experience welcome (preferred).

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