Senior Staff Software Engineer

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.

Senior Staff Software Engineer

The Challenge

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to shape technical strategy across multiple teams or a full product area at OneTrust. Senior Staff Engineers are recognized technical authorities whose decisions on architecture and direction extend well beyond their immediate team.

Your Mission Strategy & Architecture

• Define technical direction and architecture for a product area spanning multiple teams
• Act independently on significant, unique problems that require evaluating intangible or unprecedented factors

Cross Functional Influence

• Partner with Staff and Principal level peers, and with Product and UX leadership, to align the technical roadmap with business strategy
• Build formal cross group networks and serve as a recognized authority beyond your own team

Standards & Quality

• Establish engineering standards that get adopted org wide within your domain

Mentorship & Talent Growth

• Mentor Staff Engineers and contribute to technical leveling and promotion calibration

You Are Someone who acts independently on high ambiguity, high stakes technical initiatives, and who other engineers seek out before making related decisions. You balance deep technical expertise with the judgment to know when a problem needs broader alignment.

Your Experience Includes

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated track record shaping architecture or technical direction across multiple teams
• Expertise in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and the frontend and backend technologies relevant to OneTrust’s platform
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and contributing to technical leveling decisions
• Hands on experience using AI assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Devin, Windsurf, or similar in a professional setting, with genuine enthusiasm for applying AI to accelerate and elevate day to day engineering work

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.

Benefits 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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