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

Alan

48d • Hybrid

About The Position

Health can’t wait. Not for symptoms to get worse. Not for a six‑month appointment. Not for a system to catch up. But that’s exactly how healthcare works today. You wait, until you can’t. Alan exists to end the wait. Health is a universal right, and we believe this right can only become real when it’s coupled with prevention. We need to stop treating health as something we repair and start treating it as something we build, every day. It’s not solely a question of willpower. It’s the healthcare system itself that needs to work for everyone, in a sustainable way. So we are building the new standard in prevention insurance. Alan is the first company that integrates insurance, prevention, and care into a single, acclaimed user experience. We are on an incredible journey to build a global leading company, with a unique culture. We already partner with 40K+ companies of all sizes, serving more than 1M+ members, and have reached €800M+ in ARR. Prevention as the new norm. That's what we're building with our team of 800+ people. If it speaks to you: we're hiring across France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada. And beyond.

The Engineering team: In our engineering team, we build the infrastructure, interfaces, and applications to provide first-class service to our members, health professionals, and even ourselves! Being an engineer at Alan means joining a team of talented, committed and passionate engineers, with a lot of interactions. We move fast, with a lot of ownership, and are proud to tackle big problems! Our process is very simple: those who make product decisions are the same ones who build them. We are also the stewards of our members' most sensitive data, and building privacy in by design is core engineering work for us, not an afterthought. Want to know more? Read this article on our Engineering career path.

The Stack: Python/Flask/React and PostgreSQL at the core, in a monorepo we deploy daily. You build it, you own it. (Wider platform: AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog.)

The Data Foundations crew - within the Tech Foundations area: Mission: You'll own the Data Privacy Orchestrator, the platform 15+ areas and 1M+ members depend on to handle personal data safely. Your job is to build safe-by-default abstractions at scale and enable every area to run its own data lifecycle, so the platform no longer depends on one person. Tech Foundations - enables product crews and creates the environment to thrive, combining world-class infrastructure, intuitive developer experience, exquisite operational excellence, and built-in security to make shipping exceptional products effortless. Data Foundations - is one of its crews. Its mission: be the enabling and platform team for data lifecycle and privacy engineering across Alan: retention, deletion, anonymization, and pseudonymization, by design. It builds and runs the Data Privacy Orchestrator and equips each area to own its own data rules on top of it. The team also handles data shared with third parties and partners, with Legal and Security on requirements, including authority-facing work.

Requirements

• Senior/staff-level backend or platform engineering, we're hiring at level E or above band.
• 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.
• 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).
• We are aiming to hire above the E level range.
• High potential and curiosity.

Nice To Haves

• Prior privacy, GDPR, or data-governance exposure.
• Experience working in an enabling or platform-team operating model.
• French is not required.

Responsibilities

• Own and run the platform: its core engine, safety mechanisms (preview/dry-run, audit trail), and operational health (deploys, on-call, observability).
• Build the paved road: docs, templates, and self-serve tooling so any area plugs in and manages its own data rules, you build the capability, not do the work for them.
• Bridge across areas: align legal, security, data, and product on requirements; resolve deletion-ordering trade-offs. Each area stays accountable for its own data.
• Grow the surface: extend coverage across data stores and third-party systems as Alan expands into new countries.
• Ship a hardened Data Privacy Orchestrator (safety + observability) running in production, documented end-to-end.
• Extend coverage across data stores and third-party systems, in step with Alan's expansion into new countries.
• Become the long-term owner of the platform for GDPR-compliant data lifecycle and shape the roadmap for how Alan manages data lifecycle at scale.
• Invest in its safety, observability, and developer experience so areas build on it with confidence.
• Ship the docs, templates, and tooling that let areas self-serve, then move ownership of data rules to the areas that produce the data.
• Grow the platform's reach across data stores and third-party systems as Alan expands into new countries.

Benefits

• A stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers.
• A strong culture: People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed