Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• 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 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
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistent enforcement across systems
• Contribute patterns, libraries, and education that elevate trustworthy data access patterns across the organization

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Experience with large-scale data systems
• Background in security engineering, privacy engineering, or data governance
• Experience with control-plane or metadata-driven enforcement systems
• Exposure to data platforms or ML infrastructure
• Prior experience in a regulated or highly sensitive data environment

About the Company

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.