Software Engineer, Data Governance

About the role

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time and in-person collaboration that fosters trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

Preferred locations for team members for our Data Platform roles are our Seattle or San Francisco hubs.

ABOUT SUPERHUMAN

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company's products include Grammarly's writing assistance, Docs’ collaborative workspace, Mail's inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and provides proactive assistance. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com http://superhuman.com and about our values here https://superhuman.com/company/values.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Want to build the governance layer that lets a world-class data platform move fast without ever putting trust at risk? As a Senior Engineer on our Data Platform team, you’ll help us build a platform that efficiently ingests and processes over 70 billion events every day to make our products better. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of Software Engineering and Data, where the systems you build bake governance into the entire data lifecycle, from ingestion to analytics to machine learning.

As a compound startup, we’re building an integrated suite rather than separate tools, so your work spans the full product portfolio and the connections across it. Our products serve both consumers and enterprises, which creates an unusually rich and sensitive data environment. The governance layer you build connects those surfaces, and the systems you design shape how safely, responsibly, and compliantly data is handled across the entire platform.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Engineer on the Data Platform team, you’ll shape the architecture and technical strategy for Data Governance across our platform, owning data privacy, security both in-flight and at rest, regulatory compliance, and metadata management. You’ll design and lead robust, scalable, and reliable systems that handle large volumes of data and enforce governance and privacy across the company.

You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams, including Privacy & Legal, Security, and Trust Engineering, to strengthen our governance posture while keeping governance as an enabler for engineering teams rather than a blocker. As a senior IC, you’ll also mentor engineers and help set the strategic direction for the platform.

In this role, you’ll:

- Architect and lead the large-scale systems behind data governance, including privacy policy enforcement, metadata and lineage management.