Staff Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

Drata

Staff Software Engineer leading architectural design for billing systems at Drata. Focus on turning product usage into accurate financial operations and integrating with multiple systems.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $271,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptSFDCTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, RevOps, and Engineering leadership to shape Drata’s long-term billing architecture
Design the primitives of a modern billing platform
Architect a system that can accurately meter product usage at scale
Build and evolve the entitlement layer that separates pricing and packaging from product behavior
Work closely with SFDC admins, CPQ owners, and Finance stakeholders to ensure quote-to-cash flows are coherent
Ensure billing systems are operationally trustworthy
Review architecture and code for billing-related projects
Troubleshoot invoice discrepancies, usage drift, and cross-system data mismatches
Lead cross-team initiatives to improve billing developer experience
Mentor engineers on domain modeling, distributed systems tradeoffs, and financial correctness

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience as a software engineer
Deep experience architecting billing, payments, pricing, or quote-to-cash systems for a B2B SaaS company at meaningful scale
Strong experience designing APIs and event-driven systems
Strong understanding of modern billing models
Experience working with Accounting, Finance, RevOps, and GTM systems
Strong proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming
Building and consuming RESTful web services
Relational databases, data modeling, and transactional workflows
Distributed systems and asynchronous processing
Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
Logging, telemetry, and production debugging
Git and modern CI/CD practices
Knowledge of at least one major cloud platform

Benefits

Comp & perks

Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
Comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services
401(k) plan and company-paid life and disability insurance
Tax-advantaged spending accounts and discounted voluntary offerings
Paid Parental Leave after six months of employment
Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits
Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development
Flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScriptTypeScriptobject-oriented programmingAPI designevent-driven systemsRESTful web servicesrelational databasesdata modelingtransactional workflowsdistributed systems

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcross-team collaborationtroubleshootingcommunication