Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

The role

You will drive the architecture and execution of user data governance. This involves building shared platforms, defining technical strategy, and leading cross-functional programs for data flows and policy enforcement.

What you will do

• Set technical strategy and architecture for user data governance.
• Design and build shared services, APIs, metadata systems, and policy-enforcement mechanisms.
• Establish reliable inventories of user data, system ownership, and data flows.
• Partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders.
• Own governance systems in production through controls, observability, and incident response.

Required qualifications

• Substantial experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, privacy infrastructure, or governance systems in complex production environments.
• Led architecture and multi-team execution for one or more data-governance domains, such as metadata and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, or data-use controls.
• Can translate ambiguous policy, legal, security, and product requirements into technical standards and roadmaps.
• Influence senior stakeholders and engineering teams without relying on formal authority.
• Take end-to-end ownership of high-trust systems.

Nice to have

• Curious about using AI tools and agents to improve data-governance workflows.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is available.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.