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 AIReady 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 Senior Principal Software Engineer develop strategic methods and principles to improve the technical stability and efficiency of the company's products/services.

You lead and influence several teams and initiatives.

Your Mission

Design and build platforms, tools, and frameworks to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
Define and implement SRE best practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics.
Lead incident response efforts, drive root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes to prevent recurrence
Analyze system behavior, identify bottlenecks and saturation points, and implement solutions to improve resilience
Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability into the software development lifecycle
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools that enhance productivity, observability, and system robustness
Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization efforts
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and resolve production issues
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the engineering organization
Influence senior leadership with insights, metrics, and recommendations to improve system health and operational excellence

You Are

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
10+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on backend systems and distributed architecture
Extensive experience building and operating Java-based systems using: RESTful APIs, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture.
Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including fault tolerance, eventual consistency, and scalability
Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and cloud-native architectures
Expertise in observability tools (monitoring, logging, tracing) such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar
Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure as code
Hands-on experience with incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems
Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities

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.

Resources

Check out the following to learn more about OneTrust and its people:

OneTrust Careers on YouTube
@LifeatOneTrust on Instagram

Your Data

You have the right to have your personal data updated or removed. You also have the right to have a copy of the information OneTrust holds about you. Further details about these rights are available on the website in our Privacy Overview. You can change your mind at any time and have your personal data removed from our database. In order to do this you must contact us and let us know you wish to be removed. The request should be made on the Data Subject Request Form.

Recruitment fraud warning: OneTrust is aware of scams involving false offers of employment with our company. The fraudulent jobs, interviews and job offers use fake websites, email addresses, group chat and text messages. Be aware that we never ask candidates for personal information, IDs or bank information during the interview process. We do not interview prospective candidates via instant message or group chat, and do not require candidates to purchase products or services, or process payments on our behalf as a condition of any employment offer. Please note that any legitimate interview availability requests will come directly from a OneTrust recruiter with an @onetrust.com email address. You may also receive legitimate emails from @us.greenhouse-mail.io. Recruiters will only reach out to candidates who have applied for a role through our ATS (Greenhouse) or prospects via LinkedIn InMail. Job offers will come from a recruiter and may have a @docusign.net email address. For more information or if you have been targeted please reach out to [HIDDEN TEXT].

Our Commitment to You

When you join OneTrust you are stepping onto a launching pad — the countdown has begun. The destination A career without boundaries working alongside a diverse and inclusive crew who is passionate about doing meaningful work. As a pioneer, your voice and expertise will help chart the direction of an entirely new category. Our commitment to putting people first starts with you. Your growth is part of the mission. Our goal is to give you the power to embark on the next phase of your uniquely, unique career.

OneTrust provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

Senior Staff Software Engineer-SRE