Staff Software Engineer, Core GRC

Drata, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Hybrid - San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Serve as a technical leader across multiple small engineering teams, designing and building scalable, secure systems that support Drata’s Core GRC platform.
• Partner directly with Product leadership to shape technical roadmaps, recommend appropriate technologies, and align architectural decisions with business objectives.
• Review architecture and code for team projects to ensure quality, scalability, and security, while empowering teams to own implementation and delivery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and scalability issues escalated from engineering teams, identifying root causes and guiding solutions to completion.
• Own and deliver cross-team initiatives that are too complex for individual teams, such as introducing new frameworks, improving developer experience, or migrating shared functionality.
• Mentor engineers across teams through formal guilds, office hours, and informal coaching, fostering technical growth and knowledge sharing.
• Drive adoption of best practices in authentication and authorization systems, including OAuth, SCIM, OIDC, and RBAC, ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards.
• Build and consume RESTful web services using JavaScript/TypeScript in production environments, with a focus on reliability and maintainability.
• Utilize logging, telemetry, and monitoring tools to debug and optimize production systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Apply modern CI/CD practices and Git workflows to enable rapid, safe deployments across distributed environments.
• Work with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) and/or infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi to manage scalable backend systems.
• Collaborate in a hybrid model, working in-office Tuesday through Thursday in San Francisco for high-impact collaboration, with flexible remote work on Mondays and Fridays.
• Communicate architectural decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and security teams.
• Balance individual contributor work with time spent unblocking teammates, mentoring, and enabling team autonomy.
• Adopt and introduce new technologies thoughtfully into the codebase, evaluating tradeoffs between innovation, stability, and team velocity.
• Apply product development methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean to manage delivery cycles and prioritize work effectively.
• Contribute to a culture of trust, speed, and continuous growth by embodying Drata’s values: Built on Trust, Act with Integrity, Customer-Obsessed, Competitive Fire, Diversity, and Automation First.

🎯 Requirements

• 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
• 1+ years of experience with NestJS (preferred)
• 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
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, object-oriented programming, RESTful web services, networking protocols, relational databases, and modern testing practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to share in company success
• Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• Comprehensive financial benefits including 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance, and tax-advantaged spending accounts
• Paid Parental Leave after six months of employment, plus access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits
• Generous annual stipends for professional and personal development
• Flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and hybrid work model with in-office collaboration Tuesday–Thursday

Skills & Technologies

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Redis

Senior

Hybrid

$200k-271k

Degree Required

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About Drata, Inc.

Drata is a compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence for security frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. It integrates with cloud services, identity providers, and SaaS tools to track controls, manage risks, and generate audit-ready documentation. The company serves technology startups and enterprises seeking to streamline security compliance workflows and maintain continuous monitoring without manual spreadsheets.

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