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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. \nThe Challenge \nWe’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer with a passion for solving problems to join our agile AI Governance team at OneTrust. Staff Software Engineers are responsible for developing, contributing to decisions related to design and architecture of new frontend and/or backend features while supporting existing development efforts for our industry-leading platform. \nYour Mission \nDevelopment \nSupport development of Java microservices/Libraries while integrating with Jira, Jira Service Management, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SaaS providers, and AI solutions such as Claude Code, ChatGPT/Codex, and Cursor for OneTrust’s AI Governance product.\nIt will involve the designing, development, and unit testing of applications deployed to MS Azure with cloud application architecture using Core Java, REST, and the Spring ecosystem. \nContribute to the design of reusable integration patterns, API contracts, authentication, error handling, and data translation across external systems. \nHelp evolve the AI Governance registry and integration capabilities, including entity resolution, workflow integrations, evidence generation, and administrator-facing AI experiences. \nAchieve at least 80% code coverage or per the revised standards set by the team. \nCollaboration \nWork closely with UX, Product Managers and/or Product Owners, as well as other developers to contribute to planning and grooming sessions and drive team’s discussions on system architecture and component design.\nCollaborate with platform, security, legal, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable and secure SaaS and AI-solution integrations. \nSupport the team to ensure all committed stories for the sprint are completed per the sprint goal. \nSupport \nWork toward reducing total number of defects in the module/product to industry standards by catching and fixing issues early in development.\nEnsure critical and high priority CII’s are delivered per SLA. \nHelp ensure integrations remain reliable as external APIs, SaaS products, and AI solutions evolve. \nCode Review \nConduct peer reviews to improve code quality. \nHelp junior developers follow development testing, exploratory testing, AI testing and/or test automation. \nLead \nHelp build high-performing teams by mentoring the team on new technical skills. \nYou Are \nA hands-on experienced engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous platform and integration problems.\nA systems thinker who can connect product outcomes, domain models, APIs, external systems, and operational behavior. \nA pragmatic architect who knows when to build, when to reuse, and how to avoid long-term integration debt. \nA clear communicator who asks questions to clarify gaps in understanding and makes decisions visible. \nComfortable working across product, engineering, security, legal, and customer-facing stakeholders. \nMotivated by building trustworthy governance capabilities for rapidly evolving AI systems. \nYour Experience Includes \nBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical or business field.\n8+ years of professional software engineering and software development experience. \nExtensive hands-on experience with object-oriented design, Java, design patterns, Spring, SQL, web services, and REST APIs. \nStrong experience designing, building, and operating integrations with external platforms, SaaS applications, workflow systems, and AI solutions such as Jira, Jira Service Management, Slack, Microsoft Teams. \nExperience integrating with AI tooling and agent platforms (for example Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or MCP-based systems) or comparable rapidly-evolving third-party APIs.\nHands-on experience with identity and access management for integrations, including SSO using SAML or OIDC, OAuth, service accounts, API keys, token scopes, roles and claims, role-based access control, and secure credential management. \nExperience working with webhooks, pagination, rate limiting, retries, idempotency, schema versioning, authentication expiration, external API changes, and customer-specific configuration. \nExperience building distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, event-driven services, or data-ingestion pipelines using technologies such as Kafka or comparable tools, with SQL and NoSQL databases. \nExperience with data modeling and data quality for systems that exchange information across multiple external platforms. \nExperience with CI/CD, automated testing, production monitoring, incident response, Agile development practices, and scripting with Python. \nAbility to learn and use a wide variety of open-source technologies and enterprise SaaS platforms. \nComfort operating ahead of certainty - running discovery work (customer conversations, competitive and regulatory research, feasibility spikes) to resolve open questions before committing engineering.\nExperience owning a multi-quarter technical roadmap across teams, including build-versus-reuse decisions on shared platform infrastructure where the wrong call creates long-lived duplication. \nExtra Awesome \nExperience with connector frameworks, integration-platform-as-a-service products, workflow engines, or developer platforms, including reusable connector contracts and clear Sensor, Workflow, and Evidence patterns.\nExperience normalizing heterogeneous external data into a common domain model, including entity resolution, matching, deduplication, or identity/entity graphs. \nExperience designing workflow integrations that preserve the product’s source of truth while synchronizing status and actions with external systems. \nExperience evaluating shared integration frameworks and making practical build-versus-reuse decisions. \nExperience with MCP servers, agent platforms, administrator-facing AI assistants, or AI-enabled enterprise applications. \nExperience with AI observability, OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, model gateways, runtime telemetry, or post-market monitoring. \nExperience working with privacy, security, GRC, audit, risk, or regulatory data. \nExperience designing systems that require human review, attestation, immutable evidence, versioned artifacts, or strong audit trails. \nFor 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.\nSalary Range\n$139,725—$209,588 USD\nWhere we Work\nWe 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.\nEach 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.\nBenefits\nAs an employee at OneTrust, you will be part of the OneTeam. That means you’llreceive 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.\nResources \nCheck out the following to learn more about OneTrust and its people: \nOneTrust Careers on YouTube\n@LifeatOneTrust on Instagram\nYour Data\nYou have the right to have your personal data updated or removed. You also have the right to have a copy of the information OneTrust holds about you. Further details about these rights are available on the website in our Privacy Overview. You can change your mind at any time and have your personal data removed from our database. In order to do this you must contact us and let us know you wish to be removed. The request should be made on the Data Subject Request Form.\nRecruitment fraud warning:OneTrust is aware of scams involving false offers of employment with our company. The fraudulent jobs, interviews and job offers use fake websites, email addresses, group chat and text messages. Be aware that we never ask candidates for personal information, IDs or bank information during the interview process. We do not interview prospective candidates via instant message or group chat, and do not require candidates to purchase products or services, or process payments on our behalf as a condition of any employment offer. Please note that any legitimate interview availability requests will come directly from a OneTrust recruiter with an \"@onetrust.com\" email address. You may also receive legitimate emails from \"@us.greenhouse-mail.io\". Recruiters will only reach out to candidates who have applied for a role through our ATS (Greenhouse) or prospects via LinkedIn InMail. 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