Staff Software Engineer, Drata

• 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
• Networking protocols and relational databases
• Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Using logging and telemetry tools to monitor and debug production systems
• Working with Git and modern CI/CD practices
• At least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) or infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• You’ve had success in roles where you:
• Successfully completed the migration of a large company to a complex, third-party authentication system
• Led groups of engineers through feature delivery, from scoping and ticket creation to implementation and release
• Owned major products or features, balancing technical tradeoffs like quality vs. speed or team autonomy vs. alignment
• Built and scaled real-world web applications
• Worked in fast-paced environments, such as startups or growth-stage companies
• Communicated architectural decisions clearly across teams and kept stakeholders informed through status updates
• Balanced individual contributor work with time spent mentoring or unblocking teammates
• Adopted new technologies and introduced them thoughtfully into a codebase
• Used product development methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, or Lean

Desirable

• 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
• This role will 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