Senior Backend Java Engineer

The Pangolins squad is the data protection engineering team within Data Infrastructure organization. We build and operate the systems that enable us to meet its privacy and compliance obligations at scale — covering GDPR rights like Right to be Forgotten and Subject Access Requests, data retention enforcement, and access governance.
You'll join a team of 6 engineers. Every team that stores personal data depends on the infrastructure we build. We sit at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, privacy/compliance, and product enablement — and right now, we're expanding to support our most critical regulatory initiative.
The Digital Services Act (DSA) places new obligations on very large online platforms, and our ability to meet them runs directly through our team. We're building the data governance and compliance infrastructure underpinning our VLOP obligations — with hard regulatory deadlines and real legal exposure. The work spans data cataloging, researcher data access, cross-border law enforcement data access, and ML-based tooling for personal data annotation. If you're energized by infrastructure that has real-world privacy impact and want to work at the intersection of engineering, compliance, and product — we'd love to have you on the team.
What You'll Do
Build the programmatic classification pipeline and governance data catalog behind our DSA obligations — classifying data fields across tens of thousands of endpoints and provisioning them to EU-credentialed researchers through secure environments.
Develop the governance taxonomy and data model for sensitive data categories (starting with Precise Location Data), establishing foundational infrastructure that will outlast the VLOP mandate.
Contribute to the EU e-Evidence system — cross-border law enforcement data access infrastructure — as new data categories and product features come online.
Partner with Data Governance, Content Platform, Legal, and product teams to deliver cross-org solutions that are reliable, auditable, and scalable.
Champion engineering best practices, strong architectural design, and a culture of shared ownership and continuous improvement.
Who You Are
You have solid backend engineering experience in Java on Google Cloud Platform, and you're comfortable working across large-scale distributed systems.
You have hands-on experience with large-scale data infrastructure — ideally BigQuery, GCS, and Kubernetes — and can navigate complex data pipelines with confidence.
You think critically about system design and build solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and auditable at scale — especially in compliance-critical contexts.
You work well across team boundaries — with Legal, Data Governance, Product, and engineering partners — and bring clarity when requirements are evolving.
You're comfortable with ambiguity. Regulatory work moves fast; you know how to make progress even when the ground is shifting.
You care about code quality, testing, and documentation, and you build systems that are easy for others to understand and operate.
You're self-motivated and genuinely excited about infrastructure that has real-world privacy and compliance impact.
Engagement Details
Start: asap-untill end of feb with possibility to extend
Location: Stockholm/Sweden (Remote within Sweden)

Work arrangement
Yes