Staff Software Engineer

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h3>Strength in Trust&nbsp;</h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">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.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></div><p><span style="color: #000000;">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. &nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">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. &nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The Challenge</strong>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">As a Staff Software Engineer within the Design Partner Program, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for transforming strategic customer insights into scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities across OneTrust’s AIReady Governance Platform. This role sits at the intersection of Product Engineering, Customer Engineering, Architecture, and strategic customer engagements, helping shape next-generation capabilities across Privacy, Consent &amp; Preferences, Risk &amp; Governance, AI Governance, and Compliance solutions.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">You will partner closely with Product Specialists, Solution Architects, Engineering leaders, and Design Partner customers to solve complex technical challenges, define scalable implementation patterns, and accelerate delivery of customer-driven innovations. Unlike a role focused only on feature execution, this position is accountable for designing solutions that address immediate customer needs while becoming durable platform capabilities that benefit the broader OneTrust customer base.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Success in this role means raising engineering quality, reducing implementation complexity, improving platform scalability, mentoring engineers, accelerating customer outcomes, and helping OneTrust deliver market-leading governance capabilities with speed, reliability, and technical excellence.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Your Mission</strong>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Lead Technical Design &amp; Delivery: </strong>Drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable platform services, APIs, integrations, and user experiences that address strategic customer needs while meeting long-term platform standards for reliability, security, and maintainability.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Create Reusable Platform Capabilities: </strong>Translate customer-specific requirements into generalized product capabilities, shared services, reference implementations, and reusable engineering patterns that can scale across multiple customers and product domains.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Partner Across Product, Architecture &amp; Customer Engineering: </strong>Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Specialists, Solution Architects, and Design Partner customers to validate technical approaches, refine requirements, influence roadmap decisions, and ensure customer insights become high-quality product investments.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Drive Engineering Excellence: </strong>Set a high bar for code quality, architecture, testing, observability, operational readiness, and secure engineering practices. Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers through code reviews, and ensure solutions are built for performance, scale, and long-term maintainability.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Accelerate AI-Enabled Engineering: </strong>Apply AI-assisted engineering practices and tools to improve development velocity, testing effectiveness, troubleshooting, code quality, and engineering productivity. Help establish responsible usage patterns and best practices for AI-assisted software development across teams.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Influence Without Authority: </strong>Provide technical leadership across teams by guiding architecture decisions, resolving ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and helping engineers make tradeoffs between customer