Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the company

100% employer-paid health premiums

Flexible vacation policy

Generous professional development stipends

Job summary

Drata is looking for a Software Engineer focusing on the Monetization Platform in San Francisco. This role involves architecting the core billing domain, ensuring accurate customer outcomes across various systems. Ideal candidates possess strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and experience in B2B SaaS billing systems. Join our collaborative and mission-driven team.

We offer competitive salaries, equity, and extensive employee benefits, including 100% employer-paid health premiums and generous development stipends.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting billing or payments systems at scale.
• Familiarity with modern billing models like usage-based pricing.
• Proven ability to integrate with systems like Salesforce and NetSuite.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product and finance leadership on billing architecture.
• Design systems for accurate billing and commercial flexibility.
• Ensure operational reliability of billing systems.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Object-oriented programming

Building RESTful web services

Relational databases

Distributed systems

Unit and integration testing

Education

3+ years as a software engineer

Tools

Git

Job description

# Software Engineer, Monetization PlatformHybrid - San FranciscoApply**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, 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:**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.This person will help architect and evolve the core billing domain for Drata: usage event ingestion, billable metrics, pricing and packaging, invoice generation, entitlement enforcement, and the integrations that connect engineering to Accounting, Finance, RevOps, Salesforce, CPQ, and ERP systems like NetSuite.They should be equally comfortable designing event-driven systems, shaping commercial flexibility with business stakeholders, and building operationally trustworthy software where correctness, auditability, and scale matter. Modern billing is no longer just “charge a credit card once a month” — it is a real-time product control plane that must support evolving pricing models without turning the codebase into a fragile mess.**What you’ll do:*** Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, RevOps, and Engineering leadership to shape Drata’s long-term billing architecture and commercial flexibility across self-serve and enterprise motions.* Help design the primitives of a modern billing platform: usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, subscriptions, overages, and invoice workflows.* Build on a system that can accurately meter product usage at scale, transform raw events into billable quantities, and support pricing changes without requiring constant product rework.* Build and evolve the entitlement layer that separates pricing and packaging from product behavior, so feature access, limits, credits, and plan controls are programmable rather than hardcoded.* 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 for engineers and business teams.* Troubleshoot the 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 rather than a single static subscription plan.* 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:**At Drata, our people are our strongest advantage—and we prove it with support that exceeds industry standards. Our total rewards package is designed to power your well-being, accelerate your growth, and keep your work-life balance thriving.Explore how we invest in your Life at Drata.* **Shared Success**: We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that success. Equity gives every employee a sense of ownership and the opportunity to celebrate our wins together—because your contributions don’t just support our progress; they help drive our collective 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 designed to support your needs beyond traditional insurance.* **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 a range of **discounted voluntary offerings** to help you customize and strengthen your overall financial position.* **Family Support:** We want to support you in life's most important moments, so we offer a paid Parental Leave policy, after six months of employment. Employees also receive access to **Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits** and dedicated leave specialists who help guide you through the entire process.* **Growth & Development:** Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development, empowering you to invest in your continued growth. You’ll also have access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities, ensuring you can build new skills, deepen your expertise, and advance your career with confidence.* **Time Off & Flexibility:** We believe that to do your best work, you should get the time you need for rest, rejuvenation and recovery. Drata offers a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.*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:* $131,00- $178,500*.*