Senior Software Engineer

The Senior Software Engineer II helps lead the platform development by making architecture decisions to ensure we're building clean, maintainable, and beautiful applications. This person is responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling our APIs that power our web applications. They develop specifications for moderately complex software programming applications and modify/maintain the existing software. This position participates in design and coding activities with other staff members. The Senior Software Engineer will work closely with management and other leads to design and implement new systems, maintain operations of the production systems and to coordinate work across all the initiatives of the Engineering team. They will operate in a distributed architecture, building the infrastructure to manage Big Data and solve complex algorithmic problems.

What you’ll do:

• Architects and develops highly scalable web applications

• Builds RESTful APIs

• Builds tools, services, and automation to extend the platform capabilities

• Runs critical operational portions of our ingestion, analytics, and storage infrastructure

• Collaborate with our product managers to define strategic solutions and participate in the agile refinement process..

• Assist with server-side code and database architecture on the back-end in NodeJS

• Develop clean UI/UX with the collaboration of our design teams

• Work with management and other architects to ensure quality in solutions and in software design

• Participate in development lifecycle activities like design, coding, testing, and production release

• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Deliver code in an agile team environment

• Research and train on technologies you think may be appropriate for current or future projects

What you’ll bring:

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer

• 3+ years of experience with NodeJS

• 1+ years experience in NestJS preferred

• 3+ years of experience with React

• Strong skills needed in: Javascript, ES6, NodeJS, TypeORM, MySQL, Git, and REST principles

• Knowledge in Jest and Redis

• Proficiency in object-oriented programming

• Good understanding of algorithms, network protocols, and web services

• Experience with one of the major cloud hosting systems (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Self-directed, independent, and has experience owning complete features/products

• Experience developing real-world web applications

• Outstanding ability to negotiate difficult tradeoffs (e.g., quality vs. speed, collaboration vs. get-it-done)

• Agile development experience

• Previous startup or scaling experience is a plus

• Self-motivated and adaptable to changing technologies and requirements

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field

• Strong communication ability - we want to know your thoughts and input!

• Nice to have: Terraform, ElasticSearch, & Snowflake

• Nice to have: Experience with compliance frameworks like SOC2, ISO27017, NIST etc.

• Bilingual in English & Spanish is a plus

Benefits:

• Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge

• HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)

• 100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D benefits

• Learning & Development: $500 annually towards professional development opportunities + $250 annually towards personal development opportunities

• Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries

• 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn, newly adopted, or foster child (available after six months of employment)

• Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home + $1,000 annually to cover necessary business related items for your home office

• 401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes

This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The applicable salary range for each US-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers based on the cost of labor for that geographic area. The expected salary ranges for this role are below, subject to change.

Tier 1: $174,500-$215,500

Tier 2: $157,100-$194,000

Tier 3: $139,600-$172,400

You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s leveling and compensation–including a candidate’s professional background and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.

Drata is on a mission to serve as the trust layer between great companies.

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.

We all recognize the importance of earning and keeping the trust of our customers when it comes to protecting their data. We know how burdensome achieving and maintaining a strong GRC posture can be with the rise in compliance regulations. It’s a manual, redundant, error-prone, and unscalable process - and it only grows more complex and expensive over time.

Our team of SaaS, security, compliance, and audit experts have built a better way - with automation

Employment at Drata is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.