Staff Software Engineer, Core GRC

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:

The Staff Software Engineer serves as a technical leader across multiple small teams. They design and build scalable systems, guide architectural decisions, and tackle complex challenges that span codebases and domains. They work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape the technical roadmap, ensure systems are reliable and secure, and drive key cross-team initiatives from idea to implementation. The role balances deep technical work, collaborative problem-solving, and mentoring in a distributed environment.

What you’ll do:

Partner with Product to shape roadmap requirements and recommend the right technologies and design patterns.

Review architecture and code for your team’s projects to ensure quality, scalability, and security—while empowering the team to own implementation and delivery.

Troubleshoot performance and scalability issues escalated from your teams. Identify root causes, guide solutions, and see them through to resolution.

Own and deliver cross-team projects that are difficult to tackle at the team level—such as introducing new frameworks, improving the developer experience, or migrating shared functionality.

Mentor engineers across teams through guilds, office hours, and informal coaching.

What you’ll bring:

10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong foundation in building and maintaining production systems.

3+ years of experience working with Node.js or React in production environments.

1+ years of experience with NestJS (preferred).

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Strong experience with authentication & authorization protocols like OAuth, SCIM, OIDC, and RBAC systems

In depth knowledge of authentication and authorization systems from large third party providers

Strong proficiency with:

JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming

Building and consuming RESTful web services