OneTrust
AI Governance
StaffSRE
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“Staff SRE at OneTrust. Skills: SRE, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, Observability. Develop strategic methods. Improve technical stability”
What You'll Achieve.
improve the technical stability and efficiency of the company's products/services; improve system reliability, scalability, and performance; prevent recurrence of issues; improve resilience; enhance productivity, observability, and system robustness; improve system health and operational excellence
Industry & Context.
Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of experience in software engineering, focus on backend systems, focus on distributed architecture, Extensive experience building and operating Java-based systems, RESTful APIs, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture, understanding of distributed systems concepts, fault tolerance, eventual consistency, scalability, Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), cloud-native architectures, Expertise in observability tools, monitoring, logging, tracing, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automation, infrastructure as code, Hands-on experience with incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), postmortems, Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
Nice to Have
Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
Develop strategic methods
Improve technical stability
Lead and influence teams
Improve system reliability
Improve system scalability
Improve system performance
Define SRE best practices
Implement SRE best practices
Lead incident response
Drive root cause analysis
Implement long-term fixes
Analyze system behavior
Identify saturation points
Partner with engineering teams
Evaluate emerging technologies
Enhance observability
Enhance system robustness
Drive capacity planning
Drive performance tuning
Drive cost optimization
Collaborate with cross-functional teams
Prioritize improvements
Resolve production issues
Provide technical leadership
Influence senior leadership
Improve system health
Improve operational excellence
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Lead and influence several teams and initiatives; Partner with engineering teams; Collaborate with cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
communication abilities; Influence senior leadership with insights, metrics, and recommendations
Full 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 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 or
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