Staff Software Engineer
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About the Position
Staff Software Engineer
Location: Bengaluru, India
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
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction across a major feature area or system domain at OneTrust. Staff Engineers here own outcomes, not just designs; they decide how ambiguous, cross-cutting problems get solved when no existing playbook applies, and their judgment carries weight across teams they don't formally manage.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Lead architecture and design for systems with significant scope and blast radius, ensuring decisions hold up under real growth, compliance, and reliability constraints; not just initial requirements.
- Paying attention to application performance.
- Exercise judgment on where AI-assisted tooling accelerates delivery and where deeper human design thinking is required.
Cross-Team Collaboration
- Partner with Product, UX, and other engineering teams early, shaping problems before solutions are locked in.
- Build working relationships and technical credibility beyond your immediate team.
Quality & Standards
- Set engineering practices for code review norms, testing standards, and incident review rigor that outlast your direct involvement and get adopted by teams you don't sit on.
- Identify and address systemic risk (technical debt, architectural drift, single points of failure) before it becomes an incident.
Mentorship
- Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers on technical judgment: how to scope ambiguity, when to escalate vs. decide, and how to use (and not over-rely on) AI tooling in their own work.
- Help engineers build the skill of writing decisions down clearly enough that others can disagree productively.
Requirements
Your Experience Includes
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Devin, Windsurf, or similar) in a professional setting, with genuine enthusiasm for applying AI to accelerate and elevate day-to-day engineering work.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering/development experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in object-oriented design methodology and application development using Java/J2EE, Design Patterns, DSA, Multithreading, Spring MVC, SQL, Web services.
- Experience with elastic search and data streaming tools like Kafka.
- Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON.
- Agile development (Scrum, XP, or Pair Programming) experience.
- Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services (Azure, Google Cloud, or Amazon Web Services).
- Familiarity with public cloud providers such as Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes, including cluster deployment, scaling, and management is highly desirable.
We Offer
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.
About the Company
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.
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