Manager, Software Engineering

Drata • San Francisco, CA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Drata, trust is at the center of everything we build. We’re looking for an engineering leader to help scale the foundational systems powering identity, access management, and workforce orchestration across our platform. This is a high-impact platform engineering leadership role focused on building secure, scalable systems that serve some of the most complex enterprise environments in SaaS today. You’ll lead a team responsible for the infrastructure and workflows that allow customers to onboard users, manage access, synchronize workforce data, and operate compliance programs at scale. You’ll partner closely across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Support to shape platform capabilities that power the broader product ecosystem — while mentoring and growing a high-performing engineering team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 - 3+ years of software engineering management.
• Minimum of 6+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering software products.
• Track record of cross-team platform leadership — defining APIs other engineering teams consume and balancing platform investment against new feature delivery.
• Experience designing platform APIs intended for consumption by AI agents and LLM-based workflows (e.g., MCP, function-calling APIs).
• Experience scaling systems for large enterprise customers in highly regulated environments.
• Experience leading a team that owns or deeply integrates with identity providers (e.g., Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace) and the underlying protocols — SAML 2.0, OIDC / OAuth 2.0, and SCIM 2.0 — including identity lifecycle and provisioning patterns such as just-in-time provisioning, role mapping, deprovisioning, and identity reconciliation.
• Experience with role- and policy-based access control (RBAC / ABAC / PBAC) in a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Experience scaling synchronization and event-driven pipelines under multi-tenant load.
• Comfort with enterprise-grade reliability practices: SLOs, error budgets, structured observability, and reducing manual-remediation toil.
• Strong communication skills, eagerness to share ideas, and a collaborative posture with peers and partner teams.
• Experience with React, Javascript, TypeScript, NodeJS, OOP, TypeORM, MySQL, Git, and AWS (Terraform is a plus).

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree or professional certification.
• Experience operating durable, long-running workflows on a workflow engine such as Temporal (or comparable systems).
• Background in security, identity, IAM, compliance, or GRC platforms.
• Familiarity with HR information systems as a data source for workforce identity and personnel.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~5 highly skilled Software Engineers while fostering a strong engineering culture centered around ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Drive execution of multi-quarter platform initiatives spanning identity, authorization, personnel data, and enterprise scalability.
• Support the evolution of AI-ready platform capabilities, including APIs and workflows designed for agentic and LLM-powered experiences.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Customer Success, Support, and peer Engineering teams to deliver resilient platform capabilities consumed throughout the organization.
• Define and evolve platform APIs, contracts, and shared services with thoughtful migration strategies and long-term maintainability in mind.
• Raise the reliability bar for critical customer-facing systems through observability, incident analysis, automation, and operational excellence.
• Manage on-call processes and incident response for high-scale, business-critical infrastructure.
• Stay close to architecture and implementation details by reviewing designs and PRs, unblocking engineers on complex technical problems, and occasionally contributing hands-on where it accelerates delivery.
• Help shape technical strategy and architectural direction for identity and access systems supporting large-scale enterprise environments.
• Drive scalable engineering practices across roadmap planning, estimation, delivery, technical debt management, and SDLC execution.

Benefits

• Stock equity
• Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
• Comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services
• 401(k) plan
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged spending accounts
• Discounted voluntary offerings
• Paid Parental Leave policy, after six months of employment
• Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits
• Dedicated leave specialists
• Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development
• Access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities
• Flexible vacation policy
• Paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed