Platform Engineer

Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from. Job Summary: The Platform “Senior Software Engineer” will help lead the platform development by making architecture decisions to ensure we're building clean, maintainable, and beautiful applications. This person is responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling our platform systems that SCALE our Application Development team. Your “customer” is not Drata’s normal users, it’s developers both internally and externally. You’ll develop specifications for moderately complex software programming applications and modify/maintain the existing software. This position participates in design and coding activities with other staff members. They will operate in a distributed architecture, building the infrastructure to manage Big Data and solve complex algorithmic problems. What you’ll do: Architect and build platform systems that will allow our application developers to build faster more reliable software; Builds tools, services, and automation to extend the platform capabilities; Runs critical operational portions of our ingestion, analytics, and storage infrastructure; Collaborates with our product managers to define strategic solutions; Evaluates and improves the performance, durability, and security of applications in production; Assists with server-side code and database architecture on the back-end in NodeJS; Work with management to ensure quality in solutions and in software design; Participate in development lifecycle activities like design, coding, testing, and production release; Write reusable, testable, and efficient code; Deliver code in an agile team environment; Research and train on technologies you think may be appropriate for current or future projects.