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

• 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.

You Are

Someone who determines methods and approach independently on new, complex assignments, and who is sought out by other engineers for technical guidance beyond your own team. You think in terms of systems and tradeoffs, not just individual tickets.

Your Experience Includes

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated track record leading technical initiatives that span multiple engineers or systems
• Deep expertise in frontend and/or backend technologies relevant to OneTrust's platform, including cloud architecture experience
• Experience with CI/CD and orchestration frameworks
• 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.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Java/Spring Boot and microservices architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience building SaaS products at scale.

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

$139,725-$209,588 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