Senior Software Engineer 2

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 Senior Software Engineer II helps 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 APIs that power our web applications. They 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. The Senior Software Engineer will work closely with management and other leads to design and implement new systems, maintain operations of the production systems and to coordinate work across all the initiatives of the Engineering team. They will operate in a distributed architecture, building the infrastructure to manage Big Data and solve complex algorithmic problems.

What you’ll do:

Architect and develop highly scalable web applications, including AI-powered features

Build RESTful APIs and integrate with LLM services and AI capabilities

Design and implement streaming responses and real-time UI patterns for AI-driven experiences

Build tools, services, and automation to extend platform capabilities

Run critical operational portions of our ingestion, analytics, and storage infrastructure

Collaborate with product managers and AI engineers to define strategic solutions and participate in the agile refinement process

Assist with server-side code and database architecture on the back-end in NodeJS

Develop clean UI/UX with the collaboration of our design teams, with attention to AI interaction patterns

Work with management and other architects to ensure quality in solutions and 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, including emerging AI/LLM capabilities

What you’ll bring:

7+ years of experience as a software engineer