Senior IT Engineer

About this role

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidTdkGwKMY 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 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. - Connect with Us on Socials: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news. Job Summary: As a member of the IT team, you will play an important role in helping Drata scale securely and thoughtfully as we grow. You’ll build, secure, and continuously improve the systems and processes that power our internal operations across identity and access management, device management, network security, SaaS administration, and workflow automation. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys combining strong technical depth with an automation-first mindset to create secure, seamless experiences for employees across the business. You’ll partner closely with teams throughout Drata to strengthen our infrastructure, improve security controls, and bring scalable solutions to the tools and workflows people rely on every day. You’ll also leverage Drata’s security and compliance automation platform to help ensure our IT environment meets critical security and compliance requirements as the company continues to grow. As opportunities arise, you’ll be encouraged to blog, speak, and participate in events to share your work and how other companies can learn from Drata’s approach. What you’ll do: - Manage and evolve identity, device, and network security infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, changes are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and auditable - Build and maintain automated joiner/mover/leaver workflows so access is provisioned and de-provisioned accurately and on time - Enforce least-privilege access across the org through scalable IAM governance - Partner with business departments to evaluate, onboard, and integrate new SaaS tools, owning the full lifecycle from requirements and architecture through to automation and security compliance - Establish trust and strong relationships with senior leaders, operations managers, and professional staff across other organizational units - Partner with the Security team to continuously raise the bar on IT security posture - Own technical documentation, support runbooks, and integration templates - Provide mentorship to junior staff and encourage their technical development - Drive AI tool adoption and help the business identify opportunities to integrate AI into workflows - Build internal tools (CLIs, bots, and dashboards) that make the IT team faster and more effective What you’ll bring: - Like Apple products? So do we! We are a heavy Mac shop. We need you to have deep technical knowledge of MacOS - Be our gatekeeper around IAM and have experience with SSO/SAML solutions like Okta and Ping - We need you to have experience with MDM software like JAMF, Iru (Kandji), or Fleet - RFC shouldn't be just a three letter acronym to you. We need someone who understands technology basics like networking, dns, firewalls, etc. - We live in the cloud so we need you to have AWS or GCP experience - We need you to be able to do in-depth troubleshooting to problem solve - We are people who are curious and love to learn new things, we want you to have that desire as well - Be Awesome! You are going to need to work well with your peers because they are often coming to you with problems while frustrated, be kind and clearly communicate to them to make things all better - Familiarity with SaaS APIs (REST, SOAP, OAuth) for provisioning and automation - Comfort with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and workflow automation - Strong grasp of system design, scalability, and SaaS operational best practices - Familiarity with GitOps workflows and version-contro