Staff Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

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. 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• Built 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.

Skills

• Software Engineering
• Billing Systems
• Financial Operations
• Cloud Platforms
• API Design
• Data Modeling
• Distributed Systems
• Testing
• CI/CD
• Financial Correctness
• Product and Systems Mindset

Benefits

Explore how we support your Life at Drata. 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 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. 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.

Pay

$200,000 - $271,500

Schedule

Hybrid model: in-office Tuesday through Thursday, flexible Mondays and Fridays.