Drata
Staff Software Engineer, Monetization Platform
Hybrid - San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$272kDetected 53 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptDistributed SystemsObject-Oriented ProgrammingGitCloud PlatformsCI/CDRESTSalesforceCRMSalesAccountingERPLeadershipCollaborationMentoringNetSuite
About the role
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Review architecture and code for billing-related projects to ensure correctness, scale, security, and maintainability while empowering teams to own implementation details.
- 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.
- Strong experience designing APIs and event-driven systems that ingest, validate, aggregate, and reconcile high-volume operational data.
- Building systems that support both PLG/self-serve and enterprise sales motions on the same technical foundation.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- Partnered directly with Finance, Accounting, and RevOps to close gaps between what the product did, what the customer bought, and what the company invoiced.
Skills
- Relational databases, data modeling, and transactional workflows
Compensation
- A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's leveling and compensation-including a candidate's professional background and experience.
- This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- $200,000 - $271,500.
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
- Drata offers a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.
Company info
- Hear the Voice of the Team https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata: Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available.
- Experience the Impact https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7044563: See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists.
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news.
- 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.
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