Staff Software Engineer - AI Governance

Description

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.

The Challenge

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer with a passion for solving problems to join our agile AI Governance team at OneTrust. Staff Software Engineers are responsible for developing, contributing to decisions related to design and architecture of new frontend and/or backend features while supporting existing development efforts for our industry-leading platform.

Your Mission

Development

Support development of Java microservices/Libraries while integrating with Jira, Jira Service Management, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SaaS providers, and AI solutions such as Claude Code, ChatGPT/Codex, and Cursor for OneTrust’s AI Governance product.

It will involve the designing, development, and unit testing of applications deployed to MS Azure with cloud application architecture using Core Java, REST, and the Spring ecosystem.

Contribute to the design of reusable integration patterns, API contracts, authentication, error handling, and data translation across external systems.

Help evolve the AI Governance registry and integration capabilities, including entity resolution, workflow integrations, evidence generation, and administrator-facing AI experiences.

Achieve at least 80% code coverage or per the revised standards set by the team.

Collaboration

Work closely with UX, Product Managers and/or Product Owners, as well as other developers to contribute to planning and grooming sessions and drive team’s discussions on system architecture and component design.

Collaborate with platform, security, legal, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable and secure SaaS and AI-solution integrations.

Support the team to ensure all committed stories for the sprint are completed per the sprint goal.

Support

Work toward reducing total number of defects in the module/product to industry standards by catching and fixing issues early in development.

Ensure critical and high priority CII’s are delivered per SLA.

Help ensure integrations remain reliable as external APIs, SaaS products, and AI solutions evolve.

Code Review

Conduct peer reviews to improve code quality.

Help junior developers follow development testing, exploratory testing, AI testing and/or test automation.

Lead

Help build high-performing teams by mentoring the team on new technical skills.

Requirements

• A hands-on experienced engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous platform and integration problems.
• A systems thinker who can connect product outcomes, domain models, APIs, external systems, and operational behavior.
• A pragmatic architect who knows when to build, when to reuse, and how to avoid long-term integration debt.
• A clear communicator who asks questions to clarify gaps in understanding and makes decisions visible.
• Comfortable working across product, engineering, security, legal, and customer-facing stakeholders.
• Motivated by building trustworthy governance capabilities for rapidly evolving AI systems.
• Your Experience Includes
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical or business field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering and software development experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with object-oriented design, Java, design patterns, Spring, SQL, web services, and REST APIs.
• Strong experience designing, building, and operating integrations with external platforms, SaaS applications, workflow systems, and AI solutions such as Jira, Jira Service Management, Slack, Microsoft Teams.
• Experience integrating with AI tooling and agent platforms (for example Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or MCP-based systems) or comparable rapidly-evolving third-party APIs.
• Hands-on experience with identity and access management for integrations, including SSO using SAML or OIDC, OAuth, service accounts, API keys, token scopes, roles and claims, role-based access control, and secure credential management.
• Experience working with webhooks, pagination, rate limiting, retries, idempotency, schema versioning, authentication expiration, external API changes, and customer-specific configuration.
• Experience building distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, event-driven services, or data-ingestion pipelines using technologies such as Kafka or comparable tools, with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with data modeling and data quality for systems that exchange information across multiple external platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, production monitoring, incident response, Agile development practices, and scripting with Python.
• Ability to learn and use a wide variety of open-source technologies and enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Comfort operating ahead of certainty — running discovery work (customer conversations, competitive and regulatory research, feasibility spikes) to resolve open questions before committing engineering.
• Experience owning a multi-quarter technical roadmap across teams, including build-versus-reuse decisions on shared platform infrastructure where the wrong call creates long-lived duplication.
• Extra Awesome
• Experience with connector frameworks, integration-platform-as-a-service products, workflow engines, or developer platforms, including reusable connector contracts and clear Sensor, Workflow, and Evidence patterns.
• Experience normalizing heterogeneous external data into a common domain model, including entity resolution, matching, deduplication, or identity/entity graphs.
• Experience designing workflow integrations that preserve the product’s source of truth while synchronizing status and actions with external systems.
• Experience evaluating shared integration frameworks and making practical build-versus-reuse decisions.
• Experience with MCP servers, agent platforms, administrator-facing AI assistants, or AI-enabled enterprise applications.
• Experience with AI observability, OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, model gateways, runtime telemetry, or post-market monitoring.
• Experience working with privacy, security, GRC, audit, risk, or regulatory data.
• Experience designing systems that require human review, attestation, immutable evidence, versioned artifacts, or strong audit trails.
• For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington-based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job-related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.

Conditions

$139,725 - $209,588 USD

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.
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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.