5 hours ago
Base Salary
$165k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction for evidence collection and the framework and controls data model.
- Design and build scalable, reliable systems that ingest and process evidence across integrations and tenants.
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives such as pipeline re-architecture, framework expansion, and shared-functionality migrations.
- Introduce AI and agentic capabilities into evidence and framework workflows with appropriate accuracy, auditability, and trust guardrails.
- Monitor SLOs, errors, latency, deployment health, and change-failure signals, converting recurring issues into roadmap work.
- Review architecture and code for quality, scalability, and security while enabling teams to own implementation and delivery.
- Troubleshoot escalated performance and data-integrity issues through resolution.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and coaching, and communicate technical decisions to engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems, including supported customer-facing products.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams, including setting direction, aligning stakeholders, and delivering complex cross-team initiatives.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, or integration-heavy platforms at meaningful scale.
- Strong backend fundamentals in API design, relational databases, data modeling, testing, observability, and CI/CD.
- Production experience with TypeScript and Node.js; engineers from other languages may ramp into TypeScript.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform, with AWS preferred, and infrastructure as code.
- Practical daily use of AI-assisted development tools and sound judgment about product applications of AI.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience in security, compliance, GRC, or audit products.
- Preferred experience building LLM-powered features or agentic workflows in production.
- Familiarity with NestJS, TypeORM, Jest, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
- Experience in a startup or growth-stage environment is preferred.
Benefits
- Stock equity and an opportunity to share in company success.
- Up to 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents, plus wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services.
- 401(k), company-paid life and disability insurance, tax-advantaged spending accounts, and discounted voluntary benefits.
- Paid parental leave after six months of employment, plus Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits and leave specialists.
- Annual professional and personal development stipends and internal learning opportunities.
- Flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other time-off and flexibility benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Drata
Drata builds a trust management platform that automates security compliance, risk, and audit readiness across frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Delivered as SaaS, it connects to cloud and business systems to monitor controls, manage GRC workflows, and streamline security reviews for thousands of organizations. Founded in 2020 and privately held, Drata is headquartered in San Francisco, California.