Drata is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This role will help lead the development of Drata’s platform systems, which enable other engineering teams to build software in a more reliable and performant manner. Partner with other software engineers, cloud engineers and SREs to architect, design and develop complex applications, as well as expand and maintain existing software.
What you’ll do:
- Architect and build internal platform systems, with software engineering teams as customers
- Build services, tools and automation utilizing AWS infrastructure and other vendors
- Collaborate with other engineers and product owners to define strategic solutions
- Evaluate and improve the performance, durability, and security of applications in production
- 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
- Lead research on new or alternative technologies
What you’ll bring:
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- 2+ years of experience with NodeJS
- 1+ years experience in NestJS preferred
- 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 (preferred), GCP, Azure
- Experience with Docker
- Experience developing real-world web applications
- Self-directed, independent, and has experience owning complete features/products
- Self-motivated and adaptable to changing technologies and requirements
- Strong communication skills, ability to discuss trade-offs
- Agile development experience
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Previous startup or scaling experience is a plus
- Nice to have: Terraform, ElasticSearch, Python, Jenkins, Github Actions
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
This role will receive a competitive base salary and benefits. The expected salary range for this role is USD $71,528 - $84,150, subject to change.
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 help build trust across the internet.
Drata is a security and compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence of a company's security controls, while streamlining compliance workflows end-to-end to ensure audit readiness.
We all recognize the importance of earning and keeping the trust of our customers when it comes to protecting their data. We've felt firsthand how burdensome achieving and maintaining a strong security and compliance posture can be at a fast-growing company. 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.
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Trust, Automated. Drata automates your compliance journey from start to audit-read and beyond and provides support from the security and compliance experts who built it. The company is backed by ICONIQ Growth, Alkeon Capital, Salesforce Ventures, GGV Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Leaders Fund, Okta Ventures, SVCI, SV Angel, and many key industry leaders.
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