Principal Data Engineer, OneTrust
$123.8-185.6k
AI-ready governance platform
Job no longer available
AI-ready governance platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$123.8-185.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI.
Role
Who you are
- This hands-on technical role demands excellent knowledge and can demonstrate best practices in the industry
- Bachelor's degree or master's degree in computer science, Engineering or related field
- 8+ years of experience in Technology, Data Engineering field in architecting, developing end-to-end scalable data applications and data pipelines; work with product manager and scrum master's and assist team with the story creations and sprint deliverables
- 8+ years of experience working in enterprise data warehouse solutions and platforms, and working knowledge of different databases (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB) and Storage Solutions
- 6+ years of experience designing, implementing automated data solutions using Snowflake/Databricks Lakehouse; building workflows, developing, and orchestrating data pipelines using modern technologies
- 6+ years of experience implementing data solutions by adopting, recommending and improving data security, auditing, change management, automation and CICD processes
- 6+ years of experience working with software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes and testing
- You are a SQL expert. You thoroughly understand aggregate functions, window functions, UDFs, self-joins, partitioning and clustering approaches to run performant queries
- You are an Engineer. You thoroughly understand object-oriented and procedural programming paradigms (like Python) and manipulation of various data formats for extraction and transformation
Desirable
- Prior experience with full software development lifecycle, continuous integration and continuous deployment, release and change management
- Prior experience in designing data models with Salesforce, Workday, Marketo, Gainsight and other applications
- Prior experience working with Snowflake, Databricks, AWS (S3), MongoDB, and other modern database technologies
- Prior experience working with data integration, data ingestion and data orchestration frameworks using Fivetran, Mulesoft, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka and Apache Airflow
- Prior experience working with data exploration and data transformation frameworks using DBT, HEX, Coalesce, SQL and Python
- AWS or Databricks or Snowflake certification is preferred
- Problem-Solving Skills: Data Engineers look at an issue that needs to be solved and come up with solutions quickly
- Growth Learner: Desire to continue to learn about the future architecture of data technologies
What the job involves
- As a Principal Data Engineer, you will join our innovative enterprise data team
- This team is dedicated to enabling trusted and secure data for our Marketing, Sales, Finance, Product, and Customer Experience teams
- Your work will empower these teams to explore data and take actions that set us apart from our competition
- You will design and develop robust data pipelines, build dimensional and semantic models, enable and manage our data catalog, and ensure security and compliance across all data and reporting solutions
- Join us in supporting the growth of OneTrust through cutting-edge data solutions
- Inspire our Data Engineering and Insights team, drive innovation in data ingestion, transformation and management within our secure Business Technology environments
- Driving technical conversations with business stakeholders, data architects. business intelligence, and systems team to support critical reporting and analytics needs
- Defining and establishing scalable data models and supporting the tools and methods of populating data into various data lakes. data warehouses, data marts or data repositories
- Designing, building, and monitoring data pipelines that meet current business requirements but can scale gracefully for the future
- Building scalable semantic models and data solutions that will serve as analytics data products for self-service analytics
- Providing operational support and incident/problem management, including logging, instrumentation, analysis, and implementation of process improvements
- Coordinating with other IT teams to configure and implement security, monitoring, tooling, and related capabilities
- Work effectively using scrum with multiple team members to deliver value effectively
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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