Software Engineer Lead, Privacy

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada.

The opportunity 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams rely on Grammarly’s AI-enabled communication assistance to help them communicate confidently and achieve their goals. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category for individuals, enterprises, and developers with tailored service offerings: Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, Grammarly for Education, and Grammarly for Developers. All of this begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

Privacy is critical to Grammarly’s mission. Having a solid privacy posture is a complex and demanding challenge. It requires a talented and dedicated team embedded with the rest of the company. To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Tech Lead to join our Privacy Engineering team. This role involves multiple responsibilities centered around advancing our privacy posture and ensuring we adhere to our privacy principles.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As the Privacy Tech Lead, you will be building privacy-related services and tools, implementing user-facing privacy-related features, and reviewing/analyzing designs of systems and product features being created across the company for privacy issues and optimizations. Also, as a senior member of the Privacy team, you will help shape the long-term privacy strategy and help build out the team.

The challenges of this role include balancing protecting our users' privacy while enabling delightful and impactful product features and working with product, engineering, and legal organizations to understand all the requirements to develop viable solutions and tradeoffs. This role also involves defining the long-term strategy for the Privacy function and aligning it with Grammarly's overall strategy, and delivering privacy-related services and product experiences that meet Grammarly's high standards of operational excellence and usability.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has a good understanding of general concepts around data privacy.
• Is familiar with privacy concerns that apply in an industry setting, including consent, deletion, and retention, and a basic understanding of regulations such as GDPR.
• Can review system designs and product feature specs for deviations from our privacy policies and suboptimal privacy choices.
• Has a good grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures. 
• Is a great communicator and active listener.
• Has strong analytical, diagnostics, and troubleshooting skills.
• Has a proven ability to work in a multi-team environment and cross-functional setup.
• Can write correct, concise, readable, and extendable code.
• Is effectively able to judge technical talent for the Privacy team.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We also support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs. 
• Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing excellent health care (including mental health and fertility benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, caregiver and pet care stipends, wellness stipends, 401(k) matching (US only), admission discounts, learning and development opportunities, and more.
• For North America–based employment: Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, meaning pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index. Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Our compensation packages include equity; a wide range of medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance options; retirement benefits; and parental leave. We offer twenty days of paid time off per year (global), eleven days of paid holidays per year (US and Canada), and unlimited sick days (global). 

The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future. 

United States: 

Zone 1: $253,000 – $336,000/year (USD)

Zone 2: $228,000 – $302,000/year (USD)

Zone 3: $215,000 – $286,000/year (USD)

Zone 4: $202,000 – $269,000/year (USD)

Canada: 

Zone 1: 209,000 – 310,000/year (CAD)

Zone 2: 178,000 – 264,000/year (CAD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer, a participant in the US Federal E-Verify program (US), and abides by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania (Kennett Township, New London Township, Pittsburgh City, Shaler Township), South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia 

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario 

Please note that EEOC is optional and specific to US-based candidates

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