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Salary: EUR 128,000 - 160,000 / annual
Discord is seeking a Staff Privacy Engineer to join its Amsterdam office and lead privacy engineering initiatives across European operations. You will shape how privacy is built into Discord's products and operations, working with a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver the roadmap for the Privacy Engineering Amsterdam team, defining priorities and driving multi-quarter initiatives to completion across engineering, product, and legal stakeholders.
- Drive collaboration and advisement with engineering teams across Lisbon and Amsterdam, serving as the senior privacy voice in architecture reviews, product design, and incident response for European engineering hubs.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product, Data, Legal) to conduct privacy impact assessments, code and architecture reviews, and ensure compliance with Discord's Privacy Principles and regulatory requirements.
- Develop actionable data privacy policies and drive creation and monitoring of controls that ensure adherence to industry frameworks.
- Design privacy-preserving product solutions and act as the privacy subject matter expert for the region, identifying opportunities to advance privacy posture.
- Lead privacy impact analysis on production incidents, direct technical validation of remediations, and raise operational standards.
- Shape and scale central privacy systems, from evidencing automation to data subject rights fulfillment, using technical skills, privacy expertise, and AI tooling to multiply team impact and mentor other engineers.
The role requires 1-2 days per week in the Amsterdam office. Occasional virtual meetings with US-based employees may be necessary.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in technical privacy, data protection, or adjacent engineering roles, including leading significant privacy initiatives end-to-end (e.g., Privacy Enhancing Technologies, data classification and discovery, data subject rights systems).
- Track record of owning and delivering a technical roadmap, translating regulatory and business requirements into prioritized plans across multiple teams.
- Deep operational and technical fluency with GDPR and strong command of broader privacy compliance landscape (CPRA/CPPA, EU AI Act, etc.).
- Experience automating privacy compliance at scale (DPIAs, data maps, records of processing, vendor/processor risk assessment).
- Ability to automate evidence collection and program workflows (Python and AI tooling) with architecture fluency to evaluate privacy risks and design mitigations in complex distributed systems.
- Outstanding written communication and demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Legal, driving alignment across offices and time zones.
- Fluent English required; professional Dutch proficiency required.
Bonus qualifications:
- Experience leading privacy incident response and regulator engagement.
- Experience mentoring or leading privacy or security engineers.
- Familiarity with privacy tooling (OneTrust, BigID, TrustArc).
- Exposure to AI governance and EU AI Act.
- Experience working across EU and US time zones.
- Hands-on experience building and monitoring privacy or security control frameworks (ISO 27701, ISO 27001, NIST Privacy Framework).
