Drata Staff Software Engineer at Drata leading technical direction for evidence collection and framework/controls data model. Build scalable, reliable systems and lead cross-team projects to enhance compliance workflows.
Responsibilities
Own the technical direction for evidence collection and the framework/controls data model, partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to shape the roadmap
Design and build scalable, reliable systems that ingest and process evidence across many integrations and tenants
Lead cross-team projects that are too big for one team, such as re-architecting a pipeline, introducing new frameworks for adding compliance standards faster, or migrating shared functionality
Bring AI and agentic capabilities into evidence and framework workflows with the right guardrails for accuracy, auditability and customer trust
Read your teams' system health (SLOs, errors, latency, deploy and change-failure signals), chase root causes, and turn recurring issues into roadmap work
Review architecture and code to ensure quality, scalability and security, while empowering teams to own implementation and delivery
Troubleshoot escalated performance and data-integrity issues through to resolution
Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing and informal coaching, and communicate technical decisions clearly to engineers, product partners and leadership
What you'll bring:
10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems, including customer-facing products you supported in production
A track record of technical leadership across multiple teams: setting direction, driving alignment, and delivering complex cross-team initiatives
Deep experience with distributed systems, data pipelines or integration-heavy platforms at meaningful scale
Qualification
Experience in securityFamiliarity with NestJSWhat success looks likeFirst 90 days6 months12 months
Preferred
Experience in security, compliance, GRC or audit products
Experience building LLM-powered features or agentic workflows in production
Familiarity with NestJS, TypeORM, Jest, Redis and Elasticsearch
Experience in a startup or growth-stage environment
What success looks like:
First 90 days: you understand the evidence and frameworks architecture and its pain points, and you've published a technical direction your teams and product partners agree on
6 months: you're leading at least one cross-team initiative with measurable impact on reliability, scale or speed of delivery
12 months: the platform is measurably more reliable and faster to extend, and the engineers around you are stronger for having worked with you
