Senior Software Engineer

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 Linked In for company news, employee stories, and career updates.

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.

• 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

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 3+ years of experience with NodeJS1+ years experience in NestJS preferred
• 3+ years of experience with React
• Strong skills needed in:
  Java script, 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, GCP, Azure)
• Se…