Drata
Platform Engineer, AI Tooling
Hybrid - San Francisco · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$132k-$179kDetected 56 days ago
TypeScriptPythonNode.jsGitMySQLAWSTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsPlatform EngineeringTemporalRESTAgentic AIResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingAdaptability
About the role
- Your "customer" is not Drata's normal users, it's Drata's engineers.
- Help engineering teams adopt and customize AI coding tools: pair with them on prompts, debug agents that misbehave, ship the skill that solves their actual problem
- Wire AI into CI/CD: automated PR review, doc generation, test scaffolding, bug triage
Responsibilities
- Implement custom agent skills, subagents, hooks, and plugins for specific engineering workflows (PR review, test generation, on-call summaries, migration scripts, release notes)
- Build agentic workflows that automate parts of the coding lifecycle: code generation, verification, testing, and delivery - agents that take a ticket and turn it into a tested, reviewable PR
- Build the observability layer: usage telemetry, cost dashboards, audit logs for AI-driven changes
- Design and run evaluations for agent workflows
- Maintain engineering harness that the org reuses across teams
- Participate in design reviews, post-mortems, and on-call for the AI Tooling platform
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer building production systems and platforms
Nice to have
- published agent skills or open-source AI dev tool contributions, GitHub App development, Terraform
- Self-motivated and adaptable to changing technologies and requirements
- Explore how we invest in your Life at Drata https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata?utm_source=chatgpt.com.
Skills
- pair with them on prompts, debug agents that misbehave, ship the skill that solves their actual problem
- Working knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) and how to expose internal tools to AI agents safely
- TypeScript or Python in production, REST APIs, async work, relational databases
- Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Comfort building developer-facing tooling: CLIs, GitHub Apps, integrations
- Awareness of the security side of AI dev tools: secrets in prompts, code and data egress, prompt injection inside repos, audit trails
- Working knowledge of the Drata core stack, or willingness to ramp fast: NodeJS/TypeScript primary, with Temporal, MySQL, and REST
- Experience with AWS
- Familiarity with engineering productivity measurement frameworks (DORA, DX, SPACE) and what they're trying to capture
- Curious and hands-on, comfortable in a space where best practices are still being written
- Experience developing real-world web applications
- Self-directed and able to own complete features
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).
- $131,900 - $178,500.
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.
- This is not a product-AI role - you're not building AI features for Drata's customers.
This listing is sourced directly from Drata's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.