Bay Hybrid Full-time USD 200,700 – 271,500 / year

Drata is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Core GRC

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.

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.
  • 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)

Nice to Have

  • 1+ years of experience with NestJS (preferred).
  • AI-assisted development tools
  • TypeORM, Jest, Redis, and ElasticSearch

Benefits

  • Shared Success: We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that success. Equity gives every employee a sense of ownership and the opportunity to celebrate our wins together—because your contributions don’t just support our progress; they help drive our collective success.
  • Health & Wellness: Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, along with comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services designed to support your needs beyond traditional insurance.
  • Financial Well-being: A comprehensive suite of financial benefits, including a 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance, tax-advantaged spending accounts, and a range of discounted voluntary offerings to help you customize and strengthen your overall financial position.
  • Family Support: We want to support you in life's most important moments, so we offer a paid Parental Leave policy, after six months of employment. Employees also receive access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits and dedicated leave specialists who help guide you through the entire process.
  • Growth & Development: Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development, empowering you to invest in your continued growth. You’ll also have access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities, ensuring you can build new skills, deepen your expertise, and advance your career with confidence.
  • Time Off & Flexibility: We believe that to do your best work, you should get the time you need for rest, rejuvenation and recovery. Drata offers a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Bay

Additional Information

  • The role balances deep technical work, collaborative problem-solving, and mentoring in a distributed environment.
  • The role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • The applicable salary range for this role is: $200,700 - $271,500.
Required Skills
NestJS
About company
Drata
Drata is a trust management platform that uses AI-driven automation to modernize governance, risk, and compliance, helping thousands of businesses develop a more secure, proactive, and risk-aware organization to continuously maintain trust with customers.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category backend
Posted 23 days ago