alan - Senior Platform Engineer (x/f/m) - Data Retention & Privacy

• Senior/staff-level backend or platform engineering, we're hiring at level E or above band. We care about evidence & deep production ownership, not a year count. • You've built and operated platforms, libraries, or services that other engineers depend on, and you care about the contract you expose to them. • You're comfortable operating across many teams and influencing without authoritarianism: getting legal, security, data, and product crews who don't report to you aligned on a plan, and driving it to completion. • You bring pragmatism under constraint: you ship sound, safe solutions and improve them over time, rather than waiting for perfect. • Strong plus: prior privacy, GDPR, or data-governance exposure, and experience working in an enabling or platform-team operating model. • Explicitly not required: deep legal expertise. Legal and security partner with this role; they don't get replaced by it. • MINDSET WE VALUE • You treat platform engineering as product work: engineers and members are your customers, and doing the right thing with their data should feel effortless. • You're hands-on: writing code is the bulk of the job (Python, TypeScript). You ship what you write to production yourself, then operate it: rollouts, alerting, on-call, incident response. • You design and communicate: you're as comfortable writing a framing doc, drawing a dependency map, and aligning several areas on a design decision as you are writing the code. • You're an enabler: you measure your impact by how fast areas run their own data rules without ever consulting you. The harder you've worked, the less they have to engage you. • You build reusable patterns: guardrails, libraries, and safe-by-default abstractions that keep data handling correct and safe by design at scale. • You're fluent in English (French is not required). • For this opportunity, we are aiming to hire above the E level range https://medium.com/alan/a-new-iteration-of-our-engineering-career-path-at-alan-f46f7b229b2d. • But above all, we are looking for high potential and curiosity: make sure to show us this when you apply! Everything else is a bonus. • Location: You must be legally eligible to work in France, Belgium, or Spain. • Remote work: We offer remote work flexibility, but we value in-person collaboration. • 🎯 IMPORTANT NOTE: WE HIRE PEOPLE, NOT ROLES. • If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply, as it can only bring learnings or success. • If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements? • Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist. • We'll be thrilled to receive your application! • 🔖 Check out our About Alan https://alan.com/about and Career https://alan.com/careers pages, as well as our Medium https://medium.com/alan, blog https://blog.alan.com/ and Glassdoor page https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Alan-EI_IE1696043.11,15.htm for more info.