Senior Staff Software Engineer- Ai Governance

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.

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 As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the AI Governance Engineering team, you will play a critical role in shaping and building OneTrust’s next-generation AI Governance platform. You will help transform complex AI governance, compliance, safety, and agent runtime governance requirements into scalable platform capabilities that enable organizations to confidently build, deploy, and operate AI systems.

As a senior technical leader, you will influence architecture, engineering direction, and execution across multiple teams, helping translate product vision into durable, high-quality solutions with meaningful customer impact.

Your Mission

• Serve as a deep technical expert across the AI Governance platform, capable of contributing to and troubleshooting any major component of the system.
• Drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, and platform evolution based on a strong understanding of AI Governance, distributed systems, and enterprise-scale software.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leaders to translate long-term vision into actionable technical roadmaps.
• Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and highly available services supporting AI governance, observability, controls, and agent runtime management.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple initiatives and engineering teams, driving alignment and execution.
• Mentor engineers and elevate engineering excellence through architecture reviews, design guidance, and best practices.
• Tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems and drive them from concept through implementation.
• Champion performance, reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies and engineering practices that improve platform capabilities and developer productivity.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, QA, and Operations to deliver customer-centric outcomes.
• Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous platform improvement.
• Foster strong cross-functional partnerships and act as a trusted technical leader across the organization.

You Are

• A highly technical and hands-on engineering leader with a passion for building large-scale platform products.
• Comfortable operating strategically while remaining deeply involved in architecture, design, and implementation.
• An effective mentor and technical influencer who elevates the capabilities of teams around you.
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and driving consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Customer-focused, execution-oriented, and committed to engineering excellence.

Your Experience Includes

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relat…