Staff Software Engineer, Evidence & Frameworks

Drata • San Francisco, CA

1d • $165,000 - $270,000

About The Position

Drata is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Evidence & Frameworks organization, which builds systems to collect evidence from hundreds of integrations, map evidence to controls across compliance frameworks, and help customers stay audit-ready. The engineer will serve as a technical leader across teams, setting architectural direction for evidence collection and the framework and controls data model. The role is hands-on and involves solving cross-team challenges involving scale, reliability, data correctness, and the safe use of AI agents in compliance workflows.

The position partners with Product and Engineering leadership to shape the roadmap, designs and builds scalable evidence-processing systems, and leads initiatives that span multiple teams. It also involves monitoring system health, addressing root causes, reviewing architecture and code, resolving escalated performance and data-integrity issues, and mentoring engineers. Drata's stack includes TypeScript, NestJS, and React.

Drata describes itself as a global company with more than 600 professionals. Its culture emphasizes integrity, ownership, open debate, growth, and collaboration. The company offers stock equity, health and wellness coverage, financial benefits, family support, development stipends, and flexible vacation. The expected base salary range is $165,000–$270,000; actual pay depends on factors including location, relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems, including customer-facing products supported in production.
• Track record of technical leadership across multiple teams, including setting direction, driving alignment, and delivering complex cross-team initiatives.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, or integration-heavy platforms at meaningful scale.
• Strong backend fundamentals, including API design, relational databases and data modeling, testing, observability, and CI/CD.
• Production experience with TypeScript/Node.js, or strong experience in other languages and the ability to ramp quickly on TypeScript.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform; AWS is preferred.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.
• Practical, everyday use of AI-assisted development tools and sound judgment about where AI belongs in a product.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for evidence collection and the framework and 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 integrations and tenants.
• Lead cross-team initiatives, such as re-architecting a pipeline, enabling faster addition of compliance frameworks, or migrating shared functionality.
• Introduce AI and agentic capabilities into evidence and framework workflows with guardrails for accuracy, auditability, and customer trust.
• Monitor system health signals, investigate root causes, and turn recurring issues into roadmap work.
• Review architecture and code to ensure quality, scalability, and security while enabling teams to own implementation and delivery.
• Troubleshoot escalated performance and data-integrity issues through resolution.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and informal coaching; communicate technical decisions clearly to engineers, product partners, and leadership.

Benefits

• Stock equity.
• Up to 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
• Wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services.
• 401(k) plan.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance.
• Tax-advantaged spending accounts and discounted voluntary offerings.
• Paid parental leave after six months of employment.
• Fertility and family-building benefits through Kindbody.
• Dedicated leave specialists.
• Annual professional and personal development stipends.
• Internal learning opportunities.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

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