Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $230K – $385K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2025-10-17
About the role
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to architect and build backend systems that enforce data privacy and automate compliance at scale. You’ll work closely with product, infrastructure, security, and legal teams to embed privacy-by-design into our data and access layers. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for an experienced engineer who is passionate about protecting user data while enabling innovation. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Design, build, and operate backend services that enforce policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections. - Develop distributed authorization and identity-aware enforcement mechanisms integrated directly into data services and control planes. - Implement auditability, policy hooks, and enforcement observability to ensure compliance is continuously verifiable.…
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