Drata

Drata

Senior Platform Engineer 2, AI Tooling

Hybrid - San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$175k-$236kDetected 56 days ago
TypeScriptPythonNode.jsCode ReviewGitMySQLAWSTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsPlatform EngineeringTemporalRESTLLMsAgentic AICommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoringAdaptability

About the role

  • The work is measured upstream of every PR: shorter cycle time, less toil, fewer mistakes, faster onboarding, more time on the work that matters.
  • You'll set technical direction, mentor engineers, and make the architecture calls that shape how AI shows up in every engineering workflow at Drata.

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship custom agent skills, subagents, hooks, and plugins tuned to specific engineering workflows (code review, test generation, PR triage, on-call, release notes, migrations)
  • Build end-to-end agentic workflows that automate code generation, verification, testing, and delivery: agents that pick up a ticket, write the code, run the tests, and ship the PR
  • Design async, recoverable, long-running agent workflows - Temporal is already in our stack and is a natural substrate for agents that run for minutes or hours and have to survive restarts
  • Lead the rollout and customization of AI coding tools across the org
  • Design and run evals that tell us which PR review prompts actually catch bugs, which skills produce useful output, which agents save time vs. cost time - and how we know in production
  • Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance to keep AI usage inside Drata's customer-trust boundaries
  • Mentor engineers, set technical direction, and review designs across the org
  • Participate in design and coding activities, write reusable and testable code, and deliver in an agile team environment
  • Participate in design reviews, post-mortems, and on-call for the AI Tooling platform

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience as a software engineer building production systems and platforms
  • 1+ years of hands-on experience customizing or extending
  • Deep working knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol): authoring servers, designing tool interfaces, scoping permissions, handling auth

Nice to have

  • Self-directed, adaptable, and excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
  • GitHub App development at scale, Terraform
  • Explore how we invest in your Life at Drata https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata?utm_source=chatgpt.com.

Skills

  • Daily user of AI coding tools
  • code and data egress policies, secrets in prompts, prompt injection risk inside repos, audit trails for AI-driven changes
  • Experience building in AWS
  • Familiarity with engineering productivity measurement (DORA, DX, SPACE) and how to instrument it
  • Track record of owning ambiguous platform problems end-to-end and shipping them
  • Comfortable making architecture calls under uncertainty in a space that changes monthly
  • Experience mentoring engineers and unblocking other teams
  • Your "customer" is not Drata's normal users, it's Drata's engineers.
  • Design async, recoverable, long-running agent 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).
  • $174,500 - $236,100.

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.
  • Build the governance layer: usage telemetry, cost tracking, audit trails, security policy enforcement (what code can leave the org boundary, secrets scrubbing, prompt injection defenses inside the repositories)
  • 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.
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