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Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise (Remote)

Drata
United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Jul 2025
💰 $247,900/yr($160,600/yr$247,900/yr)

About the role

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.

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

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

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
  • 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

This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The applicable salary range for each US-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers based on the cost of labor for that geographic area. The expected

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