Manager, Software Engineering

Our Mission & Values: At Drata, we help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. We’re the proof layer that shows great companies deserve the trust they aim to build. We live our values every day. Built on Trust means consistency is everything. Act with Integrity by always doing the right thing. Being Customer-Obsessed keeps the people we serve at the center of our work. Competitive Fire drives us to push ourselves harder than anyone else. Diversity brings unique perspectives that lead to better solutions. Automation First ensures we save time and money by making efficiency a priority. Our Culture & Work Style 🚀 At Drata, we’re not just building software - we’re building a mindset. Everything we do springs from: Be a Driver (Owner‑Operator Mentality): Own your work. Improve relentlessly. Deliver results. Move at Drata Speed (Precision & Velocity): Fast decisions. Quick learning. Immediate impact. Stay Mission-Driven (Customer‑Obsessed): Challenge assumptions. Deliver value. Stay hungry. We pair that high-velocity culture with a thoughtful hybrid model because we believe flexibility and collaboration both matter. That’s why in the Bay we come together in-office Tuesday through Thursday our high‑impact collaboration days where teams align, strategize, and innovate. Mondays and Fridays are flexible, giving you space for focused work, balance, and autonomy. If you thrive when you’re empowered, energized, and working with smart, mission-driven people where you’ll feel at home here. Why Join The Drata Team? The best way to understand the Driver’s Mindset is to see it in action. We’re an award-winning, mission-driven team of 600+ people worldwide , united by a culture that values trust, speed, and continuous growth. See the Speed: Watch our CEO, Adam Markowitz, discuss the hyper-growth journey, from $0 to $100M ARR in just four years Hear the Voice of the Team : Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available. Experience the Impact : See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists. Connect with Us on Socials: LinkedIn - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news. Job Summary: At Drata , trust is at the center of everything we build. We’re looking for an engineering leader to help scale the foundational systems powering identity, access management, and workforce orchestration across our platform. This is a high-impact platform engineering leadership role focused on building secure, scalable systems that serve some of the most complex enterprise environments in SaaS today. You’ll lead a team responsible for the infrastructure and workflows that allow customers to onboard users, manage access, synchronize workforce data, and operate compliance programs at scale. You’ll partner closely across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Support to shape platform capabilities that power the broader product ecosystem — while mentoring and growing a high-performing engineering team. About the team: This team owns Drata's identity, personnel, and access-control platform — the foundation that lets our largest, most complex customers onboard their workforce and run their compliance programs at scale. The team's domain spans identity provider integrations, directory and HR system synchronization, and the role and permission model that gates every product surface. As this is a platform team, the manager's role involves both leading delivery and partnering with peer teams across the organization who consume the team's capabilities. This role will help define how AI is responsibly embedded into a trust-critical enterprise platform — balancing automation, security, identity, and customer trust at scale. What you'll do: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~5 highly skilled Software Engineers while fostering a strong engineering culture centered around ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Drive execution of multi-quarter platform initiatives spanning identity, authorization, personnel data, and enterprise scalability. Support the evolution of AI-ready platform capabilities, including APIs and workflows designed for agentic and LLM-powered experiences. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Customer Success, Support, and peer Engineering teams to deliver resilient platform capabilities consumed throughout the organization. Define and evolve platform APIs, contracts, and shared services with thoughtful migration strategies and long-term maintainability in mind. Raise the reliability bar for critical customer-facing systems through observability, incident analysis, automation, and operational excellence. Manage on-call processes and incident response for high-scale, business-critical infrastructure. Stay close to architecture and implementation details by reviewing designs and PRs, unblocking engineers on complex technical problems, and occasion