Senior Staff Software Engineer - Detection & Discovery

Onetrust-; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Flexible PTO

Equity RSUs

Annual performance bonuses

Retirement account support

Career development opportunities

Privacy certification fees

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.

Skills

Java

Spring ecosystem

Distributed systems

Cloud-native services

APIs

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking

Security

Code quality

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Kafka

Temporal

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Detection & Discovery

Atlanta, Georgia

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

Enterprises need dependable visibility into both the data they hold and the AI they use. OneTrust’s Detection & Discovery team owns and actively maintains Data Discovery and Data Catalog capabilities while expanding discovery of AI models, agents, and related cloud resources. Customers rely on these systems to find, understand, and govern assets across complex environments.

This role is intentionally balanced between strengthening the Data Discovery and Data Catalog pipeline and advancing AI Detection & Discovery. You will provide hands‑on technical leadership across both: sustaining and improving mature production capabilities while building the next generation of AI discovery.

Your Mission

Data Discovery & Data Catalog

Own the technical evolution and ongoing maintenance of Data Discovery and Data Catalog services and modules, including production support for capabilities customers depend on.

Lead a major engineering-quality initiative to reduce technical debt, address critical issues, and modernize the code and architecture without compromising customer stability.

Improve the stability, reliability, performance, and operability of the end‑to‑end discovery and catalog pipeline, from scanning and ingestion through cataloging and downstream use.

Identify and deliver practical opportunities to apply AI across discovery and catalog workflows, improving automation and customer value where it makes sense.

Design and build Java services, APIs, and reusable connectors that discover AI models, agents, and related resources across cloud and AI platforms.

Translate provider APIs, identity models, and resource structures into secure, consistent discovery contracts and normalized inventory data.

Advance continuous, scheduled, and incremental discovery so changes to discovered assets are reflected accurately and promptly.

Enable secure discovery across customer accounts, projects, subscriptions, and regions, and partner with AI Governance teams on asset and lifecycle integrations.

Production Support & Reliability

Participate in customer‑facing production‑support calls for Data Discovery and AI Governance, including issues involving customer‑managed or on‑premises components.

Troubleshoot complex issues across Java services, Linux environments, Kubernetes deployments, cloud integrations, and network connectivity; partner with Support, Operations, and engineering teams to mitigate customer impact.

Drive incidents from investigation through root cause and durable corrective action, using findings to improve product stability, supportability, and documentation.

Technical Leadership

Set architecture and lead multi‑quarter initiatives from design through production adoption; make pragmatic build‑versus‑reuse decisions.

Establish a high bar for code quality, design reviews, automated testing, and production readiness.

Improve observability and operational maturity; use incident patterns and operational metrics to drive systemic improvements.

Collaborate with Product, UX, Security, Platform, and customer‑facing teams; mentor engineers and influence practices beyond your immediate projects.

You Are

A hands‑on technical leader who can balance investment in new capabilities with stewardship of mature, business‑critical software. You bring sound judgment to complex systems, work comfortably across architecture and implementation, and help teams deliver improvements without losing sight of reliability and customer impact.

Your Experience Includes

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial hands‑on development in Java and the Spring ecosystem.
• A track record of designing and delivering distributed, cloud‑native services and APIs used in production at enterprise scale.
• Experience owning and evolving production software, including technical‑debt reduction, critical issue resolution, and improvements to stability and reliability.
• Hands‑on experience debugging production services in Linux and Kubernetes environments.
• Working knowledge of networking and connectivity troubleshooting, including DNS, TLS, HTTP, and proxy or firewall paths.
• Experience building integrations with external platforms, including provider APIs, authentication and authorization, pagination, data mapping, and evolving API behavior.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and workflow or event‑driven architectures, including failure handling, retries, idempotency, and observability.
• Experience designing secure, multi‑tenant SaaS systems, including tenant isolation and secure service‑to‑service communication.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy across teams, guide architecture decisions, and deliver complex initiatives while remaining effective in code and design reviews.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Extra Awesome

• Experience with data discovery, data catalog, scanning, ingestion, or asset‑inventory platforms.
• Experience applying AI or machine learning to discovery, data, or catalog workflows.
• Experience with AI platforms and infrastructure, including discovery of models, agents, runtimes, tools, or related cloud resources.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud APIs and identity models; familiarity with Amazon Bedrock / AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, or Vertex AI.
• Experience with Java workflow orchestration frameworks such as Temporal, connector frameworks, or developer automation.
• Experience with Kafka or other messaging technologies, CI/CD, and production operations for cloud‑native services.
• Familiarity with AI governance, security, privacy, compliance, or other regulated enterprise domains.
• 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.

$165,000 - $247,500 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.

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.

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