Staff Software Engineer - Consent & Preferences
About the Role
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 for our Consent & Preference team 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.
Your Mission
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
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