Senior Principal Software Engineer, OneTrust
AI Governance
$165-220k
AI-ready governance platform
Job no longer available
AI-ready governance platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$165-220k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI.
Role
Who you are
- A senior technical leader withstrong systemdesign 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
- 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)
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader for OneTrust’s AI Governance 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 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
- Collaboration:
- 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
- Support:
- 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
- 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
Our take
It's becoming clear that as businesses rapidly adopt AI, governance is struggling to keep up. Companies are moving from a handful of tools to potentially hundreds of AI agents, creating new challenges around oversight, data use and risk. As privacy and security concerns grow, organizations are realizing that scaling AI without proper control can introduce just as many risks as opportunities.
That's where OneTrust comes in, with its "AI-powered governance platform" helping organizations track how AI systems operate, what data they access and how it's used. Rather than relying on static compliance checks, it focuses on continuous, real-time monitoring, building on its foundations in privacy, consent and risk management to give companies greater control over complex AI environments.
With more than 14,000 customers, including over half of the Fortune 500, OneTrust is entering a key phase of growth. Under new CEO John Heyman, the company is leaning into the idea that AI governance will become a core business need. As adoption accelerates, OneTrust is positioning itself as a central player in helping enterprise scale AI safely and responsibly.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2023
$150m
LATE VC
Apr 2023
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Compensation: Top talent deserves top pay. Our competitive total packages include pay equity for all and bonuses.
- Mental Health & Support: Through a mental wellbeing platform and 14 weeks of parental bonding leave, inclusive of adoption, you can feel supported through all of life’s biggest changes.
- Time Off: Everyone needs time to rest and recharge. We offer flexible PTO, company recharge days, and volunteer time off globally. You’ll also have generous company holidays and paid sick days.
- Flexibility: Embrace a hybrid working model with opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person and virtually. Click here to learn more about our location strategy and hybrid workplace model.
- Career Development: Become an expert in trust intelligence with our robust onboarding bootcamp and by earning industry certifications paid for by us.
- Employee Recognition: We celebrate our accomplishments the best way we know how – together. Our Values Spotlight Awards recognize teams across the company for their contributions.
Company HQ
Old Fourth Ward, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Kabir Barday
(Founder & Board Member)Kabir founded OneTrust in 2015 and served as the company's CEO until 2026. Previously, he spent 2 years at VMware as a Senior Product Manager and Director of Product Management.
John Heyman
(CEO & Board Member)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2026, John was the CEO at Snap One for nearly 11 years and Radiant Systems for 6 years.
Blake Brannon
(Chief Product & Strategy Officer)Blake joined OneTrust in 2017 as CTO, moving into the role of Chief Product & Strategy Officer in 2021. Prior to OneTrust, he spent nearly 10 years at AirWatch by VMware as a Global Director of Sales Engineering and as VP of Product Marketing.
Digvijay Lamba
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2025, Digvijay served as the CTO at Firebolt Ventures and Alteryx. He also founded Lore IO and served as the company's CEO for nearly 5 years.
Michael Schanker
(CMO)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2025, Michael spent over 5 years at Coupa Software in various roles, including SVP of Strategic Marketing, EVP and CMO. He was also and Advisor and Head of Growth & Marketing at Remix as well as the Head of Marketing at OpenGov Inc.
Guido Torrini
(CFO)Alongside serving as the CFO at OneTrust, Guido is also the Chief Financial & Operating Officer at DDN. Previously, he was the CFO at Celonis and Wellhub.
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