Staff Software Engineer Monetization Platform

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Job Summary:

The Staff Software Engineer Monetization Platform serves as a technical leader 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 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 audit-ability 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.

• Design the primitives of a modern billing platform: usage events billable metrics products rate cards contracts credits subscriptions overages and invoice workflows.

• Architect 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.

• Review architecture and code for billing-related projects to ensure correctness scale security and maintainability while empowering teams to own implementation details.

• Troubleshoot the hard problems: invoice discrepancies usage drift contract edge cases entitlement bugs migration failures and cross-system data mismatches.

• Lead cross-team initiatives such as introducing a usage-based billing foundation rationalizing packaging models improving billing developer experience or migrating from brittle homegrown logic to more composable billing and entitlement systems.

• Mentor engineers across teams on domain modeling distributed systems tradeoffs financial correctness and the realities of building software where product behavior and revenue recognition are tightly coupled.

What you’ll bring:

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer including meaningful time owning business-critical backend systems in production.

• 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 that ingest validate aggregate and reconcile high-volume operational data.

• Strong 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.

• Strong 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.

• Led engineers through ambiguous cross-functional initiatives where the right answer required balancing correctness flexibility speed and operational simplicity.

• Communicated complex architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Balanced individual contributor depth with mentoring and unblocking other engineers.

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.

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• 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: $200000 - $271500.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s leveling and compensation–including a candidate’s professional background and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.

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