Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance
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.
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Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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.
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- 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.
- Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance to convert privacy requirements into scalable technical designs and developer-friendly APIs.
- Harden data platforms and backend services through schema-level controls and data handling constraints by default.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistent enforcement across systems while minimizing duplicated implementations.
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- Harden data platforms and backend services through schema-level controls and data handling constraints by default.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistent enforcement across systems while minimizing duplicated implementations.
- Contribute patterns, libraries, and education that elevate trustworthy data access patterns across the organization.
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