Staff Database Reliability Engineer, Drata
$176.6-272.7k
Salary dependent on location. + Restricted Stock Units
Security and compliance automation
Be an early applicant
Security and compliance automation
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$176.6-272.7k
Salary dependent on location. + Restricted Stock Units
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 15+ years of experience with large scale MySQL systems, with a strong emphasis on performance tuning and a deep understanding of its internal architecture
- Infrastructure: Extensive hands-on experience with AWS Aurora administration and proven expertise in complex performance tuning, backup, and recovery strategies
- Mentoring: Demonstrated experience guiding and influencing multiple engineering teams on database best practices and architectural decisions
- SQL: Exceptional expertise in writing, analyzing, and optimizing complex SQL queries and a deep knowledge of relational database design concepts
- Programming: Proven experience working with Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks (bonus if you have experience with TypeScript and TypeORM)
- Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to dive deep into a problem and emerge with a clear solution
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to a diverse audience. You are a collaborator and a natural leader
- Bonus points: Experience with AWS Elasticache (Redis), AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases
What the job involves
- As a Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE), you'll be the technical authority and strategic leader for all things related to Drata's database architecture
- You'll own the long-term vision for our data infrastructure, guiding engineering teams and driving significant performance and scalability improvements
- Your expertise will be key to shaping our architecture as we grow, ensuring our systems are not just reliable, but exceptionally performant and future-proof
- You will be a hands-on evangelist for best practices, combining deep-level query optimizations with high-level architectural leadership to truly elevate how we use our data
- Lead Strategic Initiatives: Drive the long-term strategy for scaling, resiliency, and performance of our AWS Aurora clusters and replication environments. You'll be the primary architect for our evolving data stack
- Serve as a Technical Expert & Evangelist: Act as the lead consultant for engineering teams, providing deep technical guidance on data modeling, query optimization, and architectural patterns. You will proactively evangelize best practices for schema design, efficient SQL queries, and index usage across the entire organization, helping to raise the bar for database knowledge company-wide
- Deep Dive into Performance: Proactively identify and resolve complex performance bottlenecks. You'll use advanced observability tools to analyze and tune difficult queries, data migrations and pinpointing issues before they impact our users
- Evangelize Architectural Vision: Lead the evaluation, prototyping, and eventual adoption of new database technologies and architectural approaches to meet our growing business needs
- Own Observability: Take full ownership of our database observability, defining and implementing key metrics and dashboards to ensure we have a comprehensive, real-time view of database health and performance
Our take
Traditional manual compliance workflows are tedious, error-prone and extremely hard to scale, which presents special difficulties for rapidly growing companies in maintaining strong data security. Drata enables companies to manage compliance easily through automatic monitoring and evidence collection, building a single picture of risk across the company.
The company has several competitors offering compliance automation solutions, including Vanta and Secureframe, but Drata is unique in automating the tasks itself rather than generating notifications for teams to action. This approach has garnered Drata a client base of thousands of companies, including bambooHR, Notion and Abnormal.
Drata has grown swiftly since its 2020 founding and acquired trust automation company Safebase in 2025 for a staggering $250 million. Iconiq Growth and GGV Capital have led Drata's impressive funding rounds in previous years, but its aim now is to expand its presence. Through its acquisition of SafeBase, Drata has also gained its customers, among which are tech leaders such as Palantir, LinkedIn and OpenAI, which will undoubtedly help it maintain its leading edge.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $328.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge
- HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)
- 100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D 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
- 401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes
Company values
- Built on Trust - Trust is our most precious asset, earned through consistency over time.
- Act With Integrity - We do the right thing, regardless of whether anyone else is looking.
- Customer Obsessive - Everything we do revolves around the customer at the centre of our purpose.
- Competitive Fire - It burns from within—we push ourselves harder than anyone else ever could.
- Diversity - Unique perspectives provide a better shared view of a problem and its possible solutions
- Automation First - Our products save companies time and money—efficiency is paramount.
Company HQ
University City, San Diego, CA
Articles
Leadership
Adam Markowitz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously VP & GM at Instructure. Founder & former CEO of Portfolium. Has worked in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Daniel Marashlian
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Technical Advisory Board Member at the National University. Previously Senior Director Of Engineering at Instructure. Co-founded Portfolium and RapidEngage.
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