Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $230K - $385K. Posted on Oct 17, 2025, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design, build, and operate backend services that enforce policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections. - Develop distributed authorization and identity-aware enforcement mechanisms integrated directly into data services and control planes. - Implement auditability, policy hooks, and enforcement observability to ensure compliance is continuously verifiable. - Partner with Security, Legal…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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