Senior Staff AI Governance Engineer - Platform Observability

Onetrust-; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 193,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

OneTrust in San Francisco (Hybrid) is recruiting a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the AI Governance platform. You will design, build, and scale Java/Python microservices, cloud-native apps on Azure, and reusable analytics dashboards that surface governance data and runtime observability metrics.

You will drive architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, UX, and Customer Success to deliver secure, observable systems for enterprise AI use cases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of professional software engineering and development experience.
• Strong expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring, Python, design patterns, microservices, and cloud-native distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading reusable platform, reporting, analytics, or data products that support multiple teams or dashboards.
• Hands-on experience with Cube.js , semantic layers, metric layers, or comparable metric/query abstraction systems.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Flink for real-time stream processing, windowed aggregation, event correlation, or derived‑metric generation.
• Experience designing event-driven services and data-ingestion pipelines using Kafka, including integrations with SQL databases, analytical platforms, APIs, and observability systems.
• Strong experience with data modeling, dataset contracts, pre-aggregation, read models, caching, query optimization, and data-quality controls.
• Experience building secure, multi-tenant SaaS platforms with tenant isolation, authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Experience working with AI/LLM platforms and production AI workloads, including model orchestration, RAG, evaluation, guardrails, or runtime observability.
• Good understanding of REST, OAuth, JSON, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Python or Bash scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, production monitoring, incident response, and Agile development practices.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and open-source technologies.
• Ability to lead multi-quarter roadmaps, make practical build-versus-reuse decisions, and align engineering, product, UX, security, platform, and observability teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of Java/Python microservices and shared libraries integrating with AI platforms for OneTrust’s AI Governance product.
• Design, build, and test cloud-native applications deployed on Microsoft Azure using Core Java, REST, and the Spring ecosystem.
• Lead the architecture and development of reusable AIG reporting and dashboard capabilities that integrate governance data from SQL databases and analytical platforms with runtime observability signals.
• Design reusable semantic-layer and metric-abstraction capabilities, including dataset contracts, metric definitions, query APIs, pre-aggregation, caching, filtering, time-period selection, and drill-down workflows.
• Lead event-driven integrations using Kafka and Apache Flink to consume normalized observability events and produce dashboard-ready datasets and derived metrics.
• Integrate with the AI Observability platform through well-defined APIs and data contracts for runtime metrics, logs, traces, alerts, policy decisions, and evidence.
• Own technical design for critical systems, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
• Partner with frontend engineers to build reusable dashboard shells, visualization components, filters, data tables, and entity drill-down experiences.
• Maintain strong automated unit and integration test coverage in line with team standards.
• Work closely with UX, Product Managers and/or Product Owners, as well as other developers to contribute to planning and grooming sessionsand drive team discussions on system architecture and component design.
• Partner with Product, UX, and Customer Success to understand customer AI use cases and governance needs.
• Lead architecture discussions and technical planning.
• Drive alignment across teams on platform design and priorities.
• Contribute to sprint planning and delivery.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring

Python

Microservices

Cloud-native architectures

Kafka

Apache Flink

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

REST / API design

OAuth

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

Tools

Cube.js

Semantic layers

Metric layers

Databricks

Job description

OneTrust in San Francisco (Hybrid) is recruiting a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the AI Governance platform. You will design, build, and scale Java/Python microservices, cloud-native apps on Azure, and reusable analytics dashboards that surface governance data and runtime observability metrics.

You will drive architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, UX, and Customer Success to deliver secure, observable systems for enterprise AI use cases.