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Salary: USD 157,500 - 262,500 / annual
Drata is a compliance automation and security assurance platform founded in 2020, now scaling with 600+ employees. The company is building an agentic AI platform that automates compliance, manages risk, and helps organizations prove trust continuously.
In this Senior Software Engineer II role, you will help lead platform development by making architecture decisions that ensure clean, maintainable, and scalable applications. You'll be responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling APIs that power web applications, working with distributed architecture to manage big data and solve complex algorithmic problems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop highly scalable web applications with 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 ingestion, analytics, and storage infrastructure
- Collaborate with product managers and AI engineers to define strategic solutions
- Assist with server-side code and database architecture using NodeJS
- Develop clean UI/UX in collaboration with design teams, with attention to AI interaction patterns
- Work with management and architects to ensure quality in solutions and software design
- Participate in full development lifecycle activities (design, coding, testing, production release)
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code in an agile team environment
- Research and train on emerging technologies, including AI/LLM capabilities
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
- 3+ years of experience with NodeJS
- 3+ years of experience with React
- Strong skills in JavaScript, ES6, NodeJS, TypeORM, MySQL, Git, and REST principles
- Knowledge of 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)
- Self-directed with experience owning complete features/products
- Experience developing real-world web applications
- Outstanding ability to negotiate difficult tradeoffs (quality vs. speed, collaboration vs. execution)
- Agile development experience
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field
- Strong communication ability
- AI Experience (required - at least one of the following): hands-on experience building features that integrate with LLMs or AI services; demonstrated passion for AI through personal projects or continuous learning; experience with prompt engineering and understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations; familiarity with streaming responses and real-time UI patterns for AI applications; experience building conversational interfaces, chatbots, or chat-based user experiences; understanding of conversation state management, context windows, and multi-turn dialogue patterns
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience with NestJS
- Previous startup or scaling experience
- Terraform, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake experience
- Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27017, NIST)
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
