Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

Drata; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 178,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

401(k) plan

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

Drata is seeking a Software Engineer for their Monetization Platform in San Francisco. This role emphasizes building systems that ensure accurate billing and financial operations within a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with various teams to architect and evolve billing systems that transform product usage into reliable customer outcomes. A commitment to excellence and strong problem-solving abilities are essential for success in this role.

Join a hybrid work model with in-office expectations Tuesday through Thursday, providing flexibility on other days.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience with business-critical backend systems.
• Familiarity with billing, payments, and pricing systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with various teams to shape billing architecture.
• Design a modern billing platform with usage events.
• Build a reliable system for billing and invoicing.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Object-oriented programming

Building RESTful web services

Relational databases

Distributed systems

Writing unit tests

CI/CD practices

Cloud platforms

Tools

Salesforce

NetSuite

Payment platforms

Job description

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.

Culture & Work Style

• 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: in‑office Tuesday through Thursday in the Bay, flexible Mondays and Fridays.

Why Join The Drata Team

• 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 spirit and growth opportunities.
• Experience the Impact: See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists.

Job Summary

The Software Engineer, Monetization Platform serves as an engineer on the Product Platform Group with a primary focus on the systems that turn product usage, subscriptions, credits, commitments, and contracts into accurate customer outcomes and clean financial operations.

Architect and evolve the core billing domain for Drata: usage event ingestion, billable metrics, pricing and packaging, invoice generation, entitlement enforcement, and integrations that connect engineering to Accounting, Finance, RevOps, Salesforce, CPQ, and ERP systems like NetSuite.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, RevOps, and Engineering leadership to shape Drata’s long‑term billing architecture and commercial flexibility.
• Help design the primitives of a modern billing platform: usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, subscriptions, overages, and invoice workflows.
• Build a system that can accurately meter product usage at scale, transform raw events into billable quantities, and support pricing changes without constant product rework.
• Build and evolve the entitlement layer that separates pricing and packaging from product behavior.
• Work closely with SFDC admins, CPQ owners, and Finance systems stakeholders to ensure quote‑to‑cash flows are coherent across CRM, product, billing, ERP, and downstream reporting systems.
• Ensure billing systems are operationally trustworthy: idempotent event handling, strong reconciliation paths, reliable notifications, auditability, and clear observability.
• Troubleshoot hard problems: invoice discrepancies, usage drift, contract edge cases, entitlement bugs, migration failures, and cross‑system data mismatches.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, including meaningful time owning business‑critical backend systems in production.
• Experience architecting billing, payments, pricing, or quote‑to‑cash systems for a B2B SaaS company at meaningful scale.
• Experience designing APIs and event‑driven systems that ingest, validate, aggregate, and reconcile high‑volume operational data.
• Understanding of modern billing models, including usage‑based pricing, subscriptions, prepaid credits, commitments, overages, hybrid packaging, and enterprise‑specific commercial terms.
• Experience working directly with Accounting, Finance, RevOps, and GTM systems where data quality, auditability, and timing matter.
• Experience integrating with systems like Salesforce, CPQ, NetSuite, payment platforms, and downstream finance/reporting tooling.
• 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
  • At least one major cloud platform and modern infrastructure tooling
• A strong product and systems mindset: you can model the commercial domain cleanly, but you also know billing architecture is ultimately customer experience architecture.

Bonus Qualifications

• Usage‑based billing platforms such as Metronome, especially concepts like usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, and programmable invoice workflows.
• Entitlement and monetization platforms such as Stigg, especially entitlements as a system of record for feature access, limits, credits, and packaging logic.
• Building systems that support both PLG/self‑serve and enterprise sales motions on the same technical foundation.
• Audit logs, RBAC, webhooks, durable queues, and other patterns that make billing and monetization systems reliable and debuggable in production.
• AI‑assisted development tools.

You’ve Had Success In Roles Where You

• Architected or modernized a billing system that had to support real usage metering, invoice correctness, and flexible commercial models.
• Built systems where raw product activity was transformed into durable billing inputs and surfaced in customer‑facing or internal financial workflows.
• Worked through pricing and packaging changes without repeatedly hardcoding logic into application code.
• Supported models like prepaid credits, subscriptions with overage, enterprise commitments, or hybrid contracts for different customer segments.
• Partnered directly with Finance, Accounting, and RevOps to close gaps between what the product did, what the customer bought, and what the company invoiced.

How We Support You

• Shared Success: We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that success.
• Health & Wellness: Up to 100% employer‑paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, along with comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services.
• Financial Well‑being: A comprehensive suite of financial benefits, including a 401(k) plan, company‑paid life and disability insurance, tax‑advantaged spending accounts, and discounted voluntary offerings.
• Family Support: Paid parental leave policy after six months of employment, access to Kindbody fertility and family‑building benefits, and dedicated leave specialists.
• Growth & Development: Generous annual stipends for professional and personal development and access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities.
• Time Off & Flexibility: Flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.

Compensation

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 this role is $131,000 – $178,500. Compensation may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary.