Full-Stack Privacy Engineer: Lawful Data Access

AI Startups UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a full-stack Software Engineer to build internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data systems to ensure authorized retrieval, auditability, and reliability.

You will partner with Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to translate legal requirements into technical designs and intuitive operator experiences, while driving automation that preserves human judgment and accountability.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building production services or data-intensive systems.
• Ability to reason about correctness, authorization, security, and privacy when working with sensitive data.
• Experience translating operational requirements into technical designs and durable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for lawful data access requests from intake to audit.
• Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores.
• Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes.
• Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate requirements into technical designs and intuitive operator experiences.
• Identify automation opportunities that reduce repetitive work while preserving human review and accountability.
• Own production systems through testing, observability, incident response, and documentation.

Skills

Backend engineering fundamentals

Production services

Data-intensive systems

Security and privacy considerations

End-to-end ownership

Operator experience

Tools

Workflow tooling

Data pipelines

Observability

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a full-stack Software Engineer to build internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data systems to ensure authorized retrieval, auditability, and reliability.

You will partner with Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to translate legal requirements into technical designs and intuitive operator experiences, while driving automation that preserves human judgment and accountability.