Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Governance

OneTrust; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

OneTrust seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and development of Java/Python microservices for its AI Governance platform. You will design cloud-native applications on Azure using Spring, and architect reusable data contracts and dashboards with strong observability.

You will drive event-driven integrations with Kafka and Flink, work on dataset contracts, metrics, and pre-aggregation, and ensure secure, compliant governance capabilities for AI deployments.

Qualifications

• Lead the design and development of Java/Python microservices and shared libraries for AI Governance.
• Design cloud-native apps on Azure using Core Java REST and Spring ecosystem.
• Develop reusable semantic-layer and metric-abstraction capabilities for governance data.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development of AIG reporting and dashboards with observability signals.
• Integrate with AI Observability and orchestrate events using Kafka and Flink.
• Ensure secure, compliant, and observable platform capabilities for AI deployments.

Skills

Java

Python

Microservices

Cloud (Azure)

Spring Framework

REST

Kafka

Apache Flink

SQL databases

Job 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.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer you will serve as a technical leader for OneTrust’s AI Governance (AIG) platform driving the design scalability and reliability of systems that enable enterprises to deploy and govern AI and LLM-powered applications responsibly. You will deeply understand how customers build deploy and operate AI systems and translate those needs into secure compliant and observable platform capabilities.

Your Mission

• 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