Drata

Senior Software Engineer II

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10 months ago

Base Salary

$175k - $236k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop highly scalable web applications, including AI-powered features.
  • Build RESTful APIs, platform tools, services, automation, and integrations with LLM services and AI capabilities.
  • Design streaming responses and real-time UI patterns for AI-driven experiences.
  • Operate critical ingestion, analytics, and storage infrastructure in a distributed architecture.
  • Develop server-side code and database architecture in NodeJS and collaborate on clean UI/UX with design teams using React.
  • Make architecture decisions, coordinate engineering initiatives, and collaborate with management, architects, product managers, and AI engineers.
  • Participate in design, coding, testing, production releases, agile refinement, and operational maintenance.
  • Write reusable, testable, efficient code and research emerging AI and LLM technologies.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 3+ years of NodeJS experience and 3+ years of React experience.
  • At least 1 year of NestJS experience is preferred.
  • Strong skills in JavaScript, ES6, NodeJS, TypeORM, MySQL, Git, and REST principles.
  • Knowledge of Jest and Redis, plus proficiency in object-oriented programming, algorithms, network protocols, and web services.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud hosting system: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Hands-on AI experience in at least one area, such as LLM or AI service integrations, prompt engineering, conversational interfaces, streaming responses, or dialogue state management.
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Experience owning complete features or products and developing real-world web applications.
  • Terraform, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, compliance frameworks, startup or scaling experience, and bilingual English and Spanish are pluses.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model in the Bay Area with in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday and flexible Mondays and Fridays.
  • Stock equity, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • Up to 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
  • 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.
  • Annual professional and personal development stipends and internal learning opportunities.
  • Flexible vacation policy and paid holidays.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureElasticsearchGitGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptJestMySQLNestJSReactRedisSnowflakeTerraform
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About Drata

501-1,000 employees

Drata provides the trust network that enables businesses to operate, scale, and partner with confidence. Powered by AI and designed to operationalize trust, the Drata Agentic Trust Management Platform continuously interprets controls, risk, and assurance signals—reducing repetitive manual work while improving visibility into internal and third-party risk, enabling always-on audit readiness across compliance frameworks, and accelerating security reviews. Purpose-built for enterprise complexity, Drata unifies governance, risk, compliance, and assurance to deliver faster time-to-value, reduce operational overhead, and enable continuous trust for 8,000+ organizations worldwide.