Staff Software Engineer, Core GRC

About this role

Our Mission & Values: At Drata, we help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. We’re the proof layer that shows great companies deserve the trust they aim to build.

We live our values every day. Built on Trust means consistency is everything. Act with Integrity by always doing the right thing. Being Customer-Obsessed keeps the people we serve at the center of our work. Competitive Fire drives us to push ourselves harder than anyone else. Diversity brings unique perspectives that lead to better solutions. Automation First ensures we save time and money by making efficiency a priority.

Our Culture & Work Style 🚀

At Drata, we’re not just building software - we’re building a mindset. Everything we do springs from:

- Be a Driver (Owner‑Operator Mentality): Own your work. Improve relentlessly. Deliver results.

- Move at Drata Speed (Precision & Velocity): Fast decisions. Quick learning. Immediate impact.

- Stay Mission-Driven (Customer‑Obsessed): Challenge assumptions. Deliver value. Stay hungry.

We pair that high-velocity culture with a thoughtful hybrid model because we believe flexibility and collaboration both matter. That’s why in the Bay we come together in-office Tuesday through Thursday our high‑impact collaboration days where teams align, strategize, and innovate. Mondays and Fridays are flexible, giving you space for focused work, balance, and autonomy.

If you thrive when you’re empowered, energized, and working with smart, mission-driven people, you’ll feel at home here.

Why Join The Drata Team?

The best way to understand the Driver’s Mindset is to see it in action. We’re an award-winning, mission-driven team of 600+ people worldwide, united by a culture that values trust, speed, and continuous growth.

- See the Speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidTdkGwKMY Watch our CEO, Adam Markowitz, discuss the hyper-growth journey, from $0 to $100M ARR in just four years

- Hear the Voice of the Team https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata: Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available.

- Experience the Impact https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7044563: See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists.

- Connect with Us on Socials: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news.

Job Summary:

The Staff Software Engineer serves as a technical leader across multiple small teams. They design and build scalable systems, guide architectural decisions, and tackle complex challenges that span codebases and domains. They work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape the technical roadmap, ensure systems are reliable and secure, and drive key cross-team initiatives from idea to implementation. The role balances deep technical work, collaborative problem-solving, and mentoring in a distributed environment.

What you’ll do:

- 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.

What you’ll bring:

- 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

- 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 experience with:

- AI-assisted development tools

- TypeORM, Jest, Redis, and ElasticSearch

You’ve had success in roles where you:

- Successfully completed the migration of a large company to a complex, third-party authentication system.

- Led groups of engineers through feature delivery, from scoping and ticket creation to implementation and release

- Owned major products or features, balancing technical tradeoffs like quality vs. speed or team autonomy vs. alignment

- Built and scaled real-world web applications

- Worked in fast-paced environments, such as startups or growth-stage companies

- Communicated architectural decisions clearly across teams and kept stakeholders informed through status updates

- Balanced individual contributor work with time spent mentoring or unblocking teammates

- Adopted new technologies and introduced them thoughtfully into a codebase

- Used product development methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, or Lean

How we support you: At Drata, our people are our strongest advantage—and we prove it with support that exceeds industry standards. Our total rewards package is designed to power your wel

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