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Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

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Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering is a still-open role at OpenAI on Jobrow. Location: Hybrid · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $230k–$325k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 2 months ago; last confirmed 9 days ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$230k–$325k
Workplace
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco · California · United States
First seen
2 months ago
Last seen
9 days ago
Board
Ashby
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About this role

About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI.

  • Function: Security
  • Seniority: mid

Location & pay

Hybrid · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $230k–$325k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for OpenAI. First seen 2 months ago; last seen 9 days ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

Posting

About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI. We partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal to translate policy and trust commitments into durable architecture and enforceable controls. Our work spans data inventory and mapping, classification and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, purpose and usage controls, auditability, and lifecycle automation. We aim to make policy-aligned data handling the default while giving teams clear, reliable primitives for building and operating products at scale. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to drive the architecture and execution of user data governance across OpenAI. You will define technical direction, build shared platforms and controls, and lead cross-functional programs that make data flows discoverable, policies enforceable, and ownership explicit. This role is well suited to a senior engineer who can move between deep systems design and organization-wide influence, turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic roadmaps, and operate high-trust systems end to end. This position is based in San Francisco. Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: - Set the technical strategy and architecture for user data governance across data mapping, classification, lineage, retention, deletion, access, and permitted usage. - Design and build shared services, APIs, metadata systems, and policy-enforcement mechanisms that make governance controls consistent, scalable, and auditable. - Establish reliable inventories of user data, system ownership, data flows, and policy applicability across products, infrastructure, analytics, and research systems. - Partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders to define decision rights, translate requirements into controls, and drive adoption across teams. - Own governance systems in production through measurable controls, observability, migrations, exception handling, incident response, and continuous improvement. You might thrive in this role if you: - Have substantial experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, privacy infrastructure, or governance systems in complex production environments. - Have led architecture and multi-team execution for one or more data-governance domains, such as metadata and lineage, retention

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