Full-Stack Engineer, Privacy & Lawful Data Access

Visa Hunt; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a full-stack Software Engineer to design and operate the backend systems and data pipelines that power lawful data access workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data stores to make retrieval and case handling accurate, auditable, and efficient.

This role emphasizes security, privacy, and reliability, with ownership of production systems, observability, and continuous improvement, while collaborating with Legal, Privacy, and Security teams on scalable

Qualifications

• Experience building production services or data-intensive systems.
• Understanding of least-privilege access and audit trails.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable designs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for lawful data access requests.
• Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores.
• Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, and data minimization.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

Security & privacy

System design

Observability

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a full-stack Software Engineer to design and operate the backend systems and data pipelines that power lawful data access workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data stores to make retrieval and case handling accurate, auditable, and efficient.

This role emphasizes security, privacy, and reliability, with ownership of production systems, observability, and continuous improvement, while collaborating with Legal, Privacy, and Security teams on scalable