Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering
Openai · San Francisco
- Level
- Not stated
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-07-15
- Compensation
- $230K – $325K • Offers Equity
- Team
- Security, Security
Role description
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.…
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