Founding Backend Architect for Data Privacy Platform

Supio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Supio is building a brand-new Compliance Platform team to protect sensitive data, including medical records and police reports. You will be the founding backend engineer designing an internal platform-as-a-service to anonymize, de-identify, and pseudonymize PII/PHI while keeping documents usable by AI systems, with auditing, access control, and reporting at the core.

You will implement anonymization pipelines, build audit trails, enforce BAAs and data residency, and collaborate with DevOps and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with data-sensitive systems.
• Experience building a compliance, privacy, or data-governance platform.
• Deep knowledge of HIPAA and PHI handling.
• Experience with AI platforms or AI data consumption.
• Familiarity with SOC 2, HITRUST or equivalent.
• Cloud data infrastructure experience (S3, databases, AWS).
• Security-first mindset: authentication, authorization, least privilege, audit logging.
• Ability to work toward a regulatory deadline.
• Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build features for an internal compliance platform-as-a-service that integrates with Supio's existing systems.
• Build anonymization, de-identification, and pseudonymization pipelines for customer PII and PHI - medical records, police reports, and other case documents - that keep data usable for AI workflows.
• Implement audit trails covering every access to a customer file, whether by a Supio employee, a system, or a customer.
• Build tracking and enforcement for BAAs, customer contracts, data opt-in/opt-out, data residency, and geographic compliance requirements.
• Design access controls with chain-of-command approval enforcement, and the reporting to show who accessed what, why, and with what authorization.
• Build notification and remediation workflows so issues are found and fixed, not just logged.
• Partner closely with DevOps, engineering teams across Supio, and the Office of the CTO - our privacy function.

Skills

Backend engineering

HIPAA PHI handling

SOC 2 HITRUST

Agentic AI platforms

AWS cloud infra

Security best practices

Regulatory deadline

CS/Engineering degree

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

AWS ecosystem

S3

Relational databases

Job description

Supio is building a brand-new Compliance Platform team to protect sensitive data, including medical records and police reports. You will be the founding backend engineer designing an internal platform-as-a-service to anonymize, de-identify, and pseudonymize PII/PHI while keeping documents usable by AI systems, with auditing, access control, and reporting at the core.

You will implement anonymization pipelines, build audit trails, enforce BAAs and data residency, and collaborate with DevOps and