Senior Staff Engineer — AI Discovery & Data Catalog

Onetrust-

Atlanta (GA)

Hybrid

USD 165,000 - 248,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Flexible PTO

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Job summary

OneTrust is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Detection & Discovery team in Atlanta, GA. You will lead the Data Discovery and Data Catalog services, while expanding AI model discovery across cloud resources.

You’ll own production reliability, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers in a fast‑moving, enterprise environment. The role emphasizes hands‑on development in Java/Spring, cloud‑native design, and proactive technical debt reduction, with strong collaboration

Qualifications

12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial hands‑on development in Java and the Spring ecosystem.
Experience designing distributed, cloud‑native services and APIs used in production at enterprise scale.
Ownership of production software, debt reduction, critical issue resolution, and reliability improvements.
Hands‑on debugging in Linux and Kubernetes environments.
Networking, TLS, DNS, HTTP, and connectivity troubleshooting knowledge.
Integrations with external platforms via provider APIs, authentication, and data mapping.
Strong grasp of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and observability.
Experience building secure, multi‑tenant SaaS systems with tenant isolation.

Responsibilities

Own the Data Discovery and Data Catalog services and maintain production capabilities.
Lead initiatives to reduce technical debt and modernize code without sacrificing stability.
Improve discovery and catalog pipeline reliability, performance, and operability.
Apply AI across workflows to boost automation and customer value.
Design Java services and connectors to discover models, agents, and resources across cloud platforms.
Translate APIs and resource structures into secure, consistent discovery contracts.
Advance continuous, scheduled, and incremental discovery across accounts/regions.
Collaborate with AI Governance on asset and lifecycle integrations.
Provide production‑level leadership across architecture, design reviews, and testing.
Mentor engineers and influence practices beyond immediate projects.
Drive incident response from investigation to durable corrective action.
Set architecture direction and maintain high code quality standards.