Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (Lawful Access)

Openai·London, UKmid

In short

→Construyes sistemas técnicos para gestionar solicitudes legales de acceso a datos con enfoque en privacidad y seguridad.
→Trabajas en herramientas internas y pipelines de datos para que equipos legales y de operaciones puedan acceder a información con control, auditoría y mínima ex
→Destaca por trabajar en un área crítica con alto impacto en cumplimiento legal, privacidad y confianza del usuario.

Fluency in English is required.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia en sistemas de acceso legal a datos o procesos similares.
✓Fundamentos sólidos en ingeniería backend y sistemas de producción.
✓Capacidad para manejar datos sensibles con enfoque en seguridad, privacidad y auditoría.
✓Habilidad para transformar requisitos ambiguos en soluciones técnicas prácticas.
✓Experiencia en colaboración con equipos legales, de operaciones y seguridad.
✓Propensión al ownership end-to-end de sistemas en producción.

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About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds secure, reliable systems that help OpenAI meet its legal obligations while protecting user data. We partner closely with Legal and engineering teams across OpenAI to support lawful data access requests and other critical legal workflows. Our work turns complex, high-stakes processes into auditable and dependable technical systems with clear human oversight and strong privacy and security controls. About the Role We’re looking for a full-stack Software Engineer to build the internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access request workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data systems to make authorized retrieval and case handling accurate, efficient, and auditable. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys translating ambiguous operational requirements into durable systems, cares deeply about sensitive-data handling, and wants to improve both technical reliability and the day-to-day experience of the people operating these workflows. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests, from intake and scoping through authorized retrieval, review, preparation, and audit. Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores so authorized teams can locate and handle the right records accurately and reproducibly. Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes for sensitive workflows. Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate legal and operational requirements into clear technical designs and intuitive operator experiences. Identify responsible automation opportunities that reduce repetitive work while preserving human review, judgment, and accountability. Own production systems through testing, observability, incident response, documentation, and continuous reliability improvements. Help define the architecture and roadmap for reusable privacy and legal-infrastructure foundations as OpenAI’s products and obligations evolve. You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience building or operating systems for lawful data access requests and understand the domain’s legal-process lifecycle, privacy and security constraints, auditability requirements, and operational sensitivities. Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building production services or data-intensive systems. Ability to reason carefully about correctness, authorization, security, and privacy when working with sensitive data. A track record of turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic plans and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly. End-to-end ownership, including operating what you build, and comfort learning unfamiliar products and domains. Care for operator experience and a drive to make complex workflows safer, clearer, and more efficient. Experience collaborating across Engineering, Legal, operations, Privacy, and Security stakeholders. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .

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