Principal Software Engineer
$163.5k - $218kSoftbank Investment Advisers
Principal Software Engineer
OneTrust
San Francisco, CA, US
Job Type: Full-Time
Function: Engineering Software
Industry: Enterprise
Company Address: 1200 Abernathy Rd Suite 700, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, US
About OneTrust
OneTrust is the trust intelligence cloud platform organizations use to transform trust from an abstract concept into a measurable competitive advantage.
Job Description
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 Principal Software Engineer with a passion for solving problems to join our agile AI Governance team at OneTrust. Principal Software Engineers are responsible for developing, contributing to decisions related to design and architecture of new frontend and/or backend features while supporting existing development efforts for our industry-leading platform.
Your Mission
Development
- Support development of Java microservices/Libraries while integrating with various AI platforms for OneTrust's AI Governance product. It will involve the designing, development, and unit testing of applications deployed to MS Azure with cloud application architecture using Core Java, REST, and the Spring ecosystem.
- 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.
- Support the team to ensure all committed stories for the sprint are completed per the sprint goal.
Support
- Work toward reducing total number of defects in the module/product to industry standards by catching and fixing issues early in development.
- Ensure critical and high priority CII's are delivered per SLA.
Code Review
- Conduct peer reviews to improve code quality.
- Help junior developers follow development testing, exploratory testing, AI testing and/or test automation.
Lead
- Help build high-performing teams by mentoring the team on new technical skills.
You Are
A self-learner who is open to new technologies, processes, or techniques to improve your ability to deliver high-quality software. Someone who asks questions to clarify gaps in understanding.
Your Experience Includes
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical or business field.
- 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, Spring MVC, SQL, Web services.
- 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)
Extra Awesome
- Familiarity with different databases (Relational and document) is a strong asset.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes, including cluster deployment, scaling, and management is highly desirable.
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington-based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job-related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.
Salary Range
$163,500—$218,000 USD
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 View email address on click.appcast.io.
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
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