Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
About OpenAI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.

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About the Role

You will design, build, and operate backend services that enforce policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections. You'll develop distributed authorization and identity-aware enforcement, implement auditability and policy hooks, and partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance to turn privacy requirements into scalable designs and APIs.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in at least one major language (Python, Go, Rust, C++, Java)
  • Experience with distributed authorization, RBAC/ACL, encryption-based access, or policy engines
  • Familiarity with global privacy regulations
  • Ability to influence and collaborate across legal, compliance, product, and engineering

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend services enforcing policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections
  • Develop distributed authorization and identity-aware enforcement mechanisms
  • Implement auditability, policy hooks, and enforcement observability
  • Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance to convert privacy requirements into scalable designs and APIs
  • Harden data platforms through schema-level controls and data handling constraints
  • Collaborate with infrastructure teams for consistent enforcement
  • Contribute patterns, libraries, and education on trustworthy data access

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
  • Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks, plus paid medical and caregiver leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends