# Senior Software Engineer 2 at Drata

- Company: Drata
- What the company does: Backed by ICONIQ.
- Company website: https://drata.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Hybrid - San Diego
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $158K to $263K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/drata/452756bd-2f92-47aa-8459-cb8f29f02b08
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/drata-senior-software-engineer-2/

## About the role

The Senior Software Engineer II helps lead the platform development by making architecture decisions to ensure we're building clean, maintainable, and beautiful applications. This person is responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling our APIs that power our web applications. They develop specifications for moderately complex software programming applications and modify/maintain the existing software. This position participates in design and coding activities with other staff members.

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on experience building features that integrate with LLMs or AI services
- Demonstrated passion for AI through personal projects, contributions, or continuous learning
- Experience with prompt engineering and understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations
- Familiarity with streaming responses and real-time UI patterns for AI applications
- Experience building conversational interfaces, chatbots, or chat-based user experiences
- Understanding of conversation state management, context windows, and multi-turn dialogue patterns

Tags: Engineering