Privacy Engineering: Lawful Data Access Engineer

OpenAI; Dublin; On-site; EUR 299,000 - 332,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in Dublin is seeking a full-time Software Engineer for Privacy Engineering focused on lawful data access. You will design, build, and operate backend systems and data pipelines with strong privacy controls to ensure auditable workflows and compliant data handling.

You will collaborate across Legal and Operations to translate requirements into robust technical designs, implement least-privilege access, and drive reliability and security across production systems.

Qualifications

• Experience building or operating systems for lawful data access requests and understanding of the domain's legal-process lifecycle, privacy and security constraints, auditability requirements, and operational sensitivities.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building production services or data-intensive systems.
• Ability to reason carefully about correctness, authorization, security, and privacy when working with sensitive data.
• A track record of turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic plans and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly.
• End-to-end ownership, including operating what you build, and comfort learning unfamiliar products and domains.
• Care for operator experience and a drive to make complex workflows safer, clearer, and more efficient.
• Experience collaborating across Engineering, Legal, operations, Privacy, and Security stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests, from intake and scoping through authorized retrieval, review, preparation, and audit.

Job description

OpenAI in Dublin is seeking a full-time Software Engineer for Privacy Engineering focused on lawful data access. You will design, build, and operate backend systems and data pipelines with strong privacy controls to ensure auditable workflows and compliant data handling.

You will collaborate across Legal and Operations to translate requirements into robust technical designs, implement least-privilege access, and drive reliability and security across production systems.