Senior Staff Software Engineer AI Governance

OneTrusts mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldnt slow teams downit should accelerate whats 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 AIReady 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 OneTrusts 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.

Development

• Lead the design and development of Java/Python microservices and shared libraries integrating with AI platforms for OneTrusts 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 CIIs are delivered per SLA.
• Promote early defect detection through strong design and testing.
• Improve system monitoring resilience and operational maturity.

Code Review

• 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.

Lead

• 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.
• Lead multi-quarter technical roadmaps across teams and make practical build-versus-reuse decisions.

A senior technical leader with strong system design and hands-on execution skills who understands how enterprises use AI and LLMs in real-world workflows and can translate those needs into scalable secure and compliant platform solutions.

Your Experience Includes

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Engineering or a related technical or business field.
• 12 years of professional software engineering and development experience.
• Strong expertise in Java/J2EE Spring Python design patterns microservices and cloud-native distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading reusable platform reporting analytics or data products that support multiple teams or dashboards.
• Hands-on experience with semantic layers metric layers or comparable metric/query abstraction systems.
• Hands-on experience withApache Flink for real-time stream processing windowed aggregation event correlation or derived-metric generation.
• Experience designing event-driven services and data-ingestion pipelines using Kafka including integrations with SQL databases analytical platforms APIs and observability systems.
• Strong experience with data modeling dataset contracts pre-aggregation read models caching query optimization and data-quality controls.
• Experience building secure multi-tenant SaaS platforms with tenant isolation authentication authorization and secure service-to-service communication.
• Experience working with AI/LLM platforms and production AI workloads including model orchestration RAG evaluation guardrails or runtime observability.
• Good understanding of REST OAuth JSON SQL NoSQL databases and Python or Bash scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD automated testing production monitoring incident response and Agile development practices.
• Experience with Azure AWS Google Cloud and open-source technologies.
• Ability to lead multi-quarter roadmaps make practical build-versus-reuse decisions and align engineering product UX security platform and observability teams.

Extra Awesome

• Experience with OpenTelemetry VictoriaMetrics Prometheus/MetricsQL Grafana Loki/LogQL Grafana Tempo/TraceQL Alertmanager or Open Policy Agent.
• Experience integrating with Databricks Delta Lake Power BI or other analytical data platforms.
• Experience building configurable dashboard systems data visualization frameworks or design-system-based frontend platforms.
• Experience with AI governance model risk management compliance GRC audit evidence or regulatory reporting.
• Experience with graph data models dependency maps entity resolution or supply-chain analysis.
• Experience designing SDK telemetry model gateways runtime instrumentation or post-market monitoring.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes including cluster deployment scaling and management is highly desirable.
• Background in enterprise regulated or security-focused environments.

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