Principal Software Engineer

Strength in Trust 

OneTrust’s mission is to enable organizations to use data and AI responsibly. Our platform simplifies the collection of data with consent and preferences, automates the governance of data with integrated risk management across privacy, security, IT/tech, third-party, and AI risk, and activates the responsible use of data by applying and enforcing data policies across the entire data estate and lifecycle. OneTrust supports seamless collaboration between data teams and risk teams to drive rapid and trusted innovation. Recognized as a market pioneer and leader, OneTrust boasts over 300 patents and serves more than 14,000 customers globally, ranging from industry giants to small businesses.

Strength in Trust

OneTrust’s mission is to enable organizations to use data and AI responsibly. Our platform simplifies the collection of data with consent and preferences, automates the governance of data with integrated risk management across privacy, security, IT/tech, third-party, and AI risk, and activates the responsible use of data by applying and enforcing data policies across the entire data estate and lifecycle. OneTrust supports seamless collaboration between data teams and risk teams to drive rapid and trusted innovation.

The Challenge

We’re looking for a talented and passionate Principal Software Engineer to join a geographically distributed agile product team. You’ll design and build scalable, resilient, high-performance backend systems that power OneTrust’s global privacy and trust platform. This is a hands-on role with exposure to modern technologies and technical leadership opportunities—designing critical systems, defining architectures, and influencing our platform roadmap.

Your Mission

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:

• Lead the design and implementation of high-availability, scalable, and performant systems using Java, Spring Boot/Spring Cloud and RESTful APIs.
• Architect and deliver backend frameworks and services oriented to multi-tenant, resilient, and secure production environments.
• Utilize your deep expertise in SQL and NoSQL databases to design data models, optimize queries and support large-scale data operations.
• Develop and enhance real-time, message-driven systems (Kafka, streaming) and containerised/cloud-native environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Own technical leadership: write code, review pull-requests, mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions and foster learning across teams.
• Monitor system performance, proactively identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to ensure scalability, reliability and efficiency.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry trends and drive innovation and best practices within the team and the organization.

You Are

You’re someone who understands both the benefits and challenges of micro-services, cloud-native architectures and enterprise-scale production systems. You collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects and Designers to align technical work with business objectives. You’re comfortable tackling sophisticated software development tasks, staying current with technologies, and driving change in the way systems are built and delivered.

Your Experience Includes

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical or business field.
• 8+ years (or more) of full software development lifecycle experience in Agile environments (Scrum, XP, Pair Programming).
• Proven experience designing and building complex, scalable systems, with a strong understanding of system design and software architecture patterns (micro-services, event-driven, distributed systems).
• Strong hands-on programming skills in Java, RESTful services and the Spring ecosystem, with solid knowledge of version control, testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Advanced expertise in both SQL and NoSQL databases including schema design, query optimisation and performance tuning.
• Experience designing and maintaining Kafka-based real-time messaging systems or similar streaming architectures.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, or AWS/GCP), containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and preferably Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring engineers, making architectural decisions, and raising the bar for engineering excellence.
• Exceptional problem-solving, strong analytic skills, and ability to communicate complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders.

Extra Awesome

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Track record running web services at global scale, high availability and large user volumes.
• Expertise with Kafka, Elasticsearch, advanced observability/monitoring tooling, and performance testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) or other productivity/automation tools for engineers.
• Previous experience in enterprise SaaS companies or large-scale cloud platforms, driving architectural evolution and technical strategy.

Where we Work

We are embracing an office first culture, encouraging three days a week in office for most roles, with meaningful opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person.

Each role may have specific requirements or flexibility depending on the scope of the position, so we encourage you to verify this with your recruiter during your first interview.

Benefits

As an employee at OneTrust, you will be part of the OneTeam. That means you’ll receive support physically, mentally, and emotionally so that you can do your best work both in and out of the office. This includes comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO, equity RSUs, annual performance bonus opportunities, retirement account support, 14+ weeks of paid parental leave, career development opportunities, company-paid privacy certification exam fees, and much more. Specific benefits differ by country. For more information, talk to your recruiter or visit onetrust.com/careers.

Resources  

Check out the following to learn more about OneTrust and its people: 

• OneTrust Careers on YouTube
• @LifeatOneTrust on Instagram

Your Data

You have the right to have your personal data updated or removed. You also have the right to have a copy of the information OneTrust holds about you. Further details about these rights are available on the website in our Privacy Overview. You can change your mind at any time and have your personal data removed from our database. In order to do this you must contact us and let us know you wish to be removed. The request should be made on the Data Subject Request Form.

Recruitment fraud warning: OneTrust is aware of scams involving false offers of employment with our company. The fraudulent jobs, interviews and job offers use fake websites, email addresses, group chat and text messages. Be aware that we never ask candidates for personal information, IDs or bank information during the interview process. We do not interview prospective candidates via instant message or group chat, and do not require candidates to purchase products or services, or process payments on our behalf as a condition of any employment offer. Please note that any legitimate interview availability requests will come directly from a OneTrust recruiter with an "@onetrust.com" email address. You may also receive legitimate emails from "@us.greenhouse-mail.io". Recruiters will only reach out to candidates who have applied for a role through our ATS (Greenhouse) or prospects via LinkedIn InMail. Job offers will come from a recruiter and may have a "@docusign.net" email address. For more information or if you have been targeted please reach out to askrecruiting@onetrust.com.

Our Commitment to You 

When you join OneTrust you are stepping onto a launching pad — the countdown has begun. The destination? A career without boundaries working alongside a diverse and inclusive crew who is passionate about doing meaningful work. As a pioneer, your voice and expertise will help chart the direction of an entirely new category. Our commitment to putting people first starts with you. Your growth is part of the mission. Our goal is to give you the power to embark on the next phase of your uniquely, unique career. 

OneTrust provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.