Staff Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

Amsterdam · The Netherlands · EUR 128,000-160,000 · 7+ years experience · Posted Oct 7, 2026

At a glance

The Staff Privacy Engineer will lead the Privacy Engineering team in Amsterdam, shaping how privacy is integrated into Discord's products and operations.
This role involves driving multi-quarter initiatives, partnering with cross-functional teams, and acting as a senior privacy subject matter expert for European engineering hubs.

Lead and deliver the roadmap for the Privacy Engineering Amsterdam team.
Drive collaboration and advisement with engineering teams across Lisbon and Amsterdam.
Act as the senior privacy voice in architecture reviews, product design, and incident response.
Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal to conduct privacy impact assessments and code reviews.
Develop actionable data privacy policies and drive the creation and monitoring of controls.
Design privacy-preserving product solutions and identify new opportunities to advance privacy posture.
Lead privacy impact analysis on production incidents and direct technical validation of remediations.
Shape and scale central privacy systems, including evidencing automation and data subject rights fulfillment.
Mentor other engineers to multiply the team's impact.

7+ years of experience in technical privacy, data protection, or adjacent engineering roles.
Experience leading significant privacy initiatives end-to-end.
Track record of owning and delivering a technical roadmap.
Deep operational and technical fluency with GDPR.
Strong command of the broader privacy compliance landscape (CPRA/CPPA, EU AI Act, etc).
Experience automating privacy compliance at scale.
Ability to automate evidence collection and program workflows using Python and AI tooling.
Architecture fluency to evaluate privacy risks and design mitigations in complex distributed systems.
Outstanding written communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
Fluent English and professional Dutch proficiency.

Experience leading privacy incident response and regulator engagement.
Experience mentoring or leading privacy or security engineers.
Familiarity with privacy tooling (e.g. OneTrust, BigID, TrustArc).
Exposure to AI governance and the EU AI Act.
Experience working across EU and US time zones.
Hands-on experience building and monitoring a privacy or security control framework (e.g. ISO 27701, ISO 27001, or NIST Privacy Framework).