Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (Lawful Access)
$293,000–$405,000 year
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests, from intake through authorized retrieval and audit. Construct reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores to enable accurate record handling. Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes for sensitive workflows. Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate operational 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 continuous reliability improvements. Help define architecture and roadmap for reusable privacy and legal-infrastructure foundations. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with hybrid work (3 days in-office), relocation assistance, and potential secondary locations in London or Dublin.
Required Qualifications
- Experience building or operating systems for lawful data access requests
- Understanding of the domain's legal-process lifecycle
- Understanding of privacy and security constraints
- Understanding of auditability requirements
- Understanding of operational sensitivities
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals
- Experience building production services
- Experience building data-intensive systems
- Ability to reason carefully about correctness
- Ability to reason carefully about authorization
- Ability to reason carefully about security
- Ability to reason carefully about privacy
- Experience working with sensitive data
- Track record of turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic plans
- Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly
- End-to-end ownership
- Comfort learning unfamiliar products and domains
- Care for operator experience
- Drive to make complex workflows safer, clearer, and more efficient
- Experience collaborating across Engineering, Legal, operations, Privacy, and Security stakeholders
- Experience with hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
- Experience with relocation assistance
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