Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Governance

OneTrust; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

OneTrust is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the AI Governance platform. You will design and deliver Java/Python microservices, and build cloud-native applications on Azure with Spring, REST, and data contracts.

You will architect reusable reporting dashboards, drive observability, and collaborate with frontend teams to craft end-to-end governance capabilities for AI deployments.

Qualifications

• Lead the design and development of Java/Python microservices.
• Design, build, and test cloud-native apps on Microsoft Azure using Core Java, REST, and Spring.
• Lead architecture of reusable AIG reporting and dashboard capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead event-driven integrations using Kafka and Apache Flink.
• Integrate with AI Observability platform via APIs and data contracts.
• Own technical design for scalable, secure, reliable systems.

Skills

Java

Python

Microservices

REST APIs

Spring

Cloud-native

Kafka

Apache Flink

Observability

SQL

Tools

Kafka

Apache Flink

Azure

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.

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

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

Development

• 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.

Collaboration

• 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.

Support

• Reduce defects by identifying and addressing issues early in the development lifecycle.
• Ensure critical and high‑priority CII’s are delivered per SLA.
• Promote early defect detection through strong design and testing.
• Improve system monitoring, resilience, and operational maturity.

Code Review

• Set standards