Senior IT Engineer

Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from.
Why Join the Drata Team?
At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for:

• Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go.

• Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them.

• A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level.

• Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience.

• A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here and follow us on LinkedIn for company news, employee stories, and career updates.

Job Summary:

As a member of the IT team, you will play an important role in helping Drata scale securely and thoughtfully as we grow. You’ll build, secure, and continuously improve the systems and processes that power our internal operations across identity and access management, device management, network security, SaaS administration, and workflow automation. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys combining strong technical depth with an automation-first mindset to create secure, seamless experiences for employees across the business. You’ll partner closely with teams throughout Drata to strengthen our infrastructure, improve security controls, and bring scalable solutions to the tools and workflows people rely on every day. You’ll also leverage Drata’s security and compliance automation platform to help ensure our IT environment meets critical security and compliance requirements as the company continues to grow. As opportunities arise, you’ll be encouraged to blog, speak, and participate in events to share your work and how other companies can learn from Drata’s approach.

What you’ll do:

• Manage and evolve identity, device, and network security infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, changes are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and auditable

• Build and maintain automated joiner/mover/leaver workflows so access is provisioned and de-provisioned accurately and on time

• Enforce least-privilege access across the org through scalable IAM governance

• Partner with business departments to evaluate, onboard, and integrate new SaaS tools, owning the full lifecycle from requirements and architecture through to automation and security compliance

• Establish trust and strong relationships with senior leaders, operations managers, and professional staff across other organizational units

• Partner with the Security team to continuously raise the bar on IT security posture

• Own technical documentation, support runbooks, and integration templates

• Provide mentorship to junior staff and encourage their technical development

• Drive AI tool adoption and help the business identify opportunities to integrate AI into workflows

• Build internal tools (CLIs, bots, and dashboards) that make the IT team faster and more effective

What you’ll bring:

• Like Apple products? So do we! We are a heavy Mac shop. We need you to have deep technical knowledge of MacOS

• Be our gatekeeper around IAM and have experience with SSO/SAML solutions like Okta and Ping

• We need you to have experience with MDM software like JAMF, Iru (Kandji), or Fleet

• RFC shouldn't be just a three letter acronym to you. We need someone who understands technology basics like networking, dns, firewalls, etc.

• We live in the cloud so we need you to have AWS or GCP experience

• We need you to be able to do in-depth troubleshooting to problem solve

• We are people who are curious and love to learn new things, we want you to have that desire as well

• Be Awesome! You are going to need to work well with your peers because they are often coming to you with problems while frustrated, be kind and clearly communicate to them to make things all better

• Familiarity with SaaS APIs (REST, SOAP, OAuth) for provisioning and automation

• Comfort with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and workflow automation

• Strong grasp of system design, scalability, and SaaS operational best practices

• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and version-controlling infrastructure and configuration changes

How we support you:
At Drata, our people are our strongest advantage—and we prove it with support that exceeds industry standards. Our total rewards package is designed to power your well-being, accelerate your growth, and keep your work-life balance thriving.

Explore how we invest in your Life at Drata.

• Shared Success: We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that success. Equity gives every employee a sense of ownership and the opportunity to celebrate our wins together—because your contributions don’t just support our progress; they help drive our collective success.

• Health & Wellness: Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, along with comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services designed to support your needs beyond traditional insurance.

• Financial Well-being: A comprehensive suite of financial benefits, including a 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance, tax-advantaged spending accounts, and a range of discounted voluntary offerings to help you customize and strengthen your overall financial position.

• Family Support: We want to support you in life's most important moments, so we offer a paid Parental Leave policy, after six months of employment. Employees also receive access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits and dedicated leave specialists who help guide you through the entire process.

• Growth & Development: Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development, empowering you to invest in your continued growth. You’ll also have access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities, ensuring you can build new skills, deepen your expertise, and advance your career with confidence.

• Time Off & Flexibility: We believe that to do your best work, you should get the time you need for rest, rejuvenation and recovery. Drata offers a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.

This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Since this role is based in San Francisco, we only showcase Tier 1 compensation. The applicable salary range for this role is: $157,100 - $194,040.

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.