Senior Platform Engineer, Interoperability
About The Position
The Platform “Senior Software Engineer” will help 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 platform systems that SCALE our Application Development team. Your “customer” is not Drata’s normal users, it’s developers both internally and externally. You’ll 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. They will operate in a distributed architecture, building the infrastructure to manage Big Data and solve complex algorithmic problems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- 3+ years of experience with NodeJS
- Strong skills needed in: Javascript, ES6, Temporal, 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 building in AWS
- 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
- 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 Haves
- 1+ years experience in NestJS preferred
- Terraform, ElasticSearch, & Snowflake
- Previous startup or scaling experience is a plus
- Bilingual in English & Spanish is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build platform systems that will allow our application developers to build faster more reliable software
- Builds tools, services, and automation to extend the platform capabilities
- Runs critical operational portions of our ingestion, analytics, and storage infrastructure
- Collaborates with our product managers to define strategic solutions
- Evaluates and improves the performance, durability, and security of applications in production
- Assists with server-side code and database architecture on the back-end in NodeJS
- Work with management 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
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
- Range of 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
- Wide range of internal learning opportunities
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid holidays
- Competitive base salary
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
