Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Drata is a trust management platform that uses AI-driven automation to modernize governance, risk, and compliance. The Staff Software Engineer serves as a technical leader, designing and building scalable systems while guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Product to shape roadmap requirements and recommend the right technologies and design patterns.

• Review architecture and code for your team’s projects to ensure quality, scalability, and security—while empowering the team to own implementation and delivery.

• Troubleshoot performance and scalability issues escalated from your teams. Identify root causes, guide solutions, and see them through to resolution.

• Own and deliver cross-team projects that are difficult to tackle at the team level—such as introducing new frameworks, improving the developer experience, or migrating shared functionality.

• Mentor engineers across teams through guilds, office hours, and informal coaching.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong foundation in building and maintaining production systems.

• 3+ years of experience working with Node.js or React in production environments.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

• Strong experience with authentication & authorization protocols like OAuth, SCIM, OIDC, and RBAC systems

• In depth knowledge of authentication and authorization systems from large third party providers

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming

• Building and consuming RESTful web services

• Networking protocols and relational databases

• Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

• Using logging and telemetry tools to monitor and debug production systems

• Working with Git and modern CI/CD practices

• At least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) or infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)

Preferred:

• 1+ years of experience with NestJS

• AI-assisted development tools

• TypeORM, Jest, Redis, and ElasticSearch

Company:

Drata is a Trust Management Platform that automates compliance workflows, streamlines risk management, and continuous security assurance Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Drata has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.