OneTrust · 7 hours ago
Senior Principal Software Engineer - AI Governance
San Francisco, California
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$165K/yr - $220K/yr
12+ years expOneTrust is a technology company focused on responsible data use and AI governance. They are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of their AI Governance platform, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability of systems that support enterprise AI applications.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cyber SecurityLegalBig DataSoftwareInformation TechnologyComplianceData Governance
Responsibilities
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
Build features with RAG, agent workflows, and model orchestration
Own technical design for critical systems, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability
Maintain strong automated unit/integration test coverage and engineering standards. Achieve at least 80% code coverage or per the revised standards set by the team
Work 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
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
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
Set standards for clean, secure, and maintainable code
Conduct thorough reviews for distributed and AI-enabled systems
Guide engineers on testing, automation, and AI system validation
Help build high-performing teams by mentoring the team on new technical skills
Influence technical strategy and long-term platform direction
Build a culture of ownership, learning, and engineering excellence
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical or business field
12+ years of professional software engineering/development experience
Strong expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring, design patterns, microservices architecture, and cloud-native distributed systems
Proven experience building production-grade agentic AI systems with robust tool-use, guardrails, and observability for enterprise-scale workloads
Solid understanding of RAG pipelines, agent workflows, model orchestration, and evaluation practices
Working experience with one or more AI platforms like Amazon SageMaker, Google Vertex, AWS Bedrock etc
Experience with elastic search and data streaming tools like Kafka
Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON
Moderate understanding of code and script (Python, Bash)
Good experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
Agile development (Scrum, XP, or Pair Programming) experience
Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services
Familiarity with public cloud providers such as (Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS)
Preferred
Experience with different databases (Relational and document) is a strong asset
Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools
Proficiency in Kubernetes, including cluster deployment, scaling, and management is highly desirable
Background in enterprise, regulated, or security-focused environments
Benefits
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
Company
OneTrust
OneTrust is the AI-Ready Governance platform helping organizations accelerate innovation while ensuring responsible data use.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.07BKey Investors
Generation Investment ManagementSoftBank Vision FundTCV
2023-07-24Series Unknown· $150M
2023-03-31Secondary Market· $1B
2021-04-06Series C· $210M
Leadership Team
Kabir Barday
Founder, CEO
Guido Torrini
Chief Financial Officer
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