# Staff Software Engineer, Core GRC

**Company:** [Drata](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/drata)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $201k – $272k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, React, Nestjs, JavaScript, TypeScript, OAuth, SCIM, OIDC, RBAC, REST APIs, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Pulumi
**Posted:** 2026-05-26

> Staff-level engineer leading architecture and cross-team initiatives for Drata's GRC platform. Focuses on scalable systems, authentication infrastructure, mentoring, and roadmap collaboration in a hybrid SF office environment.

## Job Description

## 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
  - 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)
- Nice to have experience with:
  - AI-assisted development tools
  - TypeORM, Jest, Redis, and ElasticSearch

## Success in this role
- 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.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive base salary: $200,700 - $271,500.
- Stock equity (RSUs).
- Up to 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums.
- 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance.
- Paid Parental Leave after six months.
- Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits.
- Generous annual stipends for professional and personal development.
- Flexible vacation policy and paid holidays.

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