Staff Software Engineer

Strength in Trust 

OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. 

OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down - it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like.  

OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.  

 

The Challenge 

As a Staff Software Engineer within the Design Partner Program, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for transforming strategic customer insights into scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities across OneTrust’s AIReady Governance Platform. This role sits at the intersection of Product Engineering, Customer Engineering, Architecture, and strategic customer engagements, helping shape next-generation capabilities across Privacy, Consent & Preferences, Risk & Governance, AI Governance, and Compliance solutions. 

You will partner closely with Product Specialists, Solution Architects, Engineering leaders, and Design Partner customers to solve complex technical challenges, define scalable implementation patterns, and accelerate delivery of customer-driven innovations. Unlike a role focused only on feature execution, this position is accountable for designing solutions that address immediate customer needs while becoming durable platform capabilities that benefit the broader OneTrust customer base. 

Success in this role means raising engineering quality, reducing implementation complexity, improving platform scalability, mentoring engineers, accelerating customer outcomes, and helping OneTrust deliver market-leading governance capabilities with speed, reliability, and technical excellence. 

 

Your Mission 

Lead Technical Design & Delivery: Drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable platform services, APIs, integrations, and user experiences that address strategic customer needs while meeting long-term platform standards for reliability, security, and maintainability.  

Create Reusable Platform Capabilities: Translate customer-specific requirements into generalized product capabilities, shared services, reference implementations, and reusable engineering patterns that can scale across multiple customers and product domains. 

Partner Across Product, Architecture & Customer Engineering: Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Specialists, Solution Architects, and Design Partner customers to validate technical approaches, refine requirements, influence roadmap decisions, and ensure customer insights become high-quality product investments. 

Drive Engineering Excellence: Set a high bar for code quality, architecture, testing, observability, operational readiness, and secure engineering practices. Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers through code reviews, and ensure solutions are built for performance, scale, and long-term maintainability. 

Accelerate AI-Enabled Engineering: Apply AI-assisted engineering practices and tools to improve development velocity, testing effectiveness, troubleshooting, code quality, and engineering productivity. Help establish responsible usage patterns and best practices for AI-assisted software development across teams. 

Influence Without Authority: Provide technical leadership across teams by guiding architecture decisions, resolving ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and helping engineers make tradeoffs between customer urgency, platform quality, and long-term product scalability. 

 

You Are 

• A hands-on technical leader who can move fluidly between architecture, implementation, customer context, and engineering execution. 

• A systems thinker who designs for reuse, scalability, security, observability, and operational excellence. 

• Customer-obsessed and motivated by building product capabilities that solve real enterprise problems. 

• Comfortable working across Product, Architecture, Customer Engineering, and Software Development teams. 

• A mentor who raises the technical bar for other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing. 

• Excited by AI-powered software development and the opportunity to improve how engineering teams build, test, and deliver software. 

• Accountable, collaborative, and execution-oriented, with the ability to lead through ambiguity and deliver high-quality outcomes. 

 

Your Experience Includes  

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building enterprise SaaS applications, distributed systems, or cloud-native platforms. 

• Strong experience designing and developing scalable APIs, microservices, integrations, event-driven systems, and backend services. 

• Hands-on expertise with modern engineering stacks such as Java, Spring, TypeScript, Python, REST APIs, SQL, NoSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP. 

• Experience contributing to architecture decisions, system design, technical tradeoffs, and implementation patterns for complex enterprise products. 

• Proven ability to build reliable, secure, observable, and maintainable production systems. 

• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps practices, Agile delivery, and modern software development lifecycle practices. 

• Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, improving engineering practices, and influencing technical direction across teams. 

• Experience working with Product, Architecture, UX, Customer Engineering, and customer-facing teams to translate requirements into technical solutions. 

• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity, quality, testing, and troubleshooting is strongly preferred. 

• Familiarity with Privacy, Consent, Risk, Governance, Compliance, Security, Data Management, or AI Governance domains is preferred. 

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.

 

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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.