Senior Platform Engineer 2, AI Tooling

Drata, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Hybrid - San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Architect and deliver the internal AI platform that empowers Drata’s engineers by automating code generation, verification, testing, and delivery through agentic workflows.
• Design and ship custom AI agent skills, subagents, hooks, and plugins tailored to Drata’s engineering workflows including code review, test generation, PR triage, on-call, release notes, and migrations.
• Build end-to-end, async, and recoverable agentic workflows using Temporal to handle long-running AI tasks that survive restarts and maintain state across execution.
• Integrate AI tools into CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, automating PR reviews, test generation, documentation, migration agents, and bug triage within engineering workflows.
• Develop and maintain MCP servers that connect AI agents to Drata’s internal systems, ensuring secure, authenticated, and permissioned access to codebases and tools.
• Implement governance, observability, and cost controls for AI tooling including usage telemetry, audit trails, secrets scrubbing, prompt injection defenses, and data egress policies.
• Design and run production evals to measure which AI prompts, skills, and agents effectively catch bugs, save time, or increase cost—using data to drive iterative improvements.
• Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure all AI tooling adheres to Drata’s customer-trust boundaries and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor engineers across the organization, set technical direction, and lead design reviews for AI infrastructure and agent architecture.
• Stay current with the evolving AI coding tool landscape and evaluate new tools, frameworks, or models for adoption based on real engineering impact.
• Write reusable, testable code in TypeScript, NodeJS, or Python to build developer-facing tooling such as CLIs, GitHub Apps, and internal portals.
• Instrument and measure engineering productivity using frameworks like DORA, DX, or SPACE to quantify the impact of AI tooling on cycle time, toil reduction, and onboarding speed.
• Participate in on-call rotations for the AI Tooling platform, responding to incidents, conducting post-mortems, and improving system reliability.
• Own ambiguous platform problems end-to-end, making architecture decisions under uncertainty in a rapidly changing AI landscape.
• Communicate complex technical designs clearly through written documentation including RFCs, design docs, and post-mortems.
• Balance tradeoffs between quality and speed, build vs. buy, and mandate vs. paved road to ensure AI tools are adopted as the default path for engineering work.
• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and agile team activities while maintaining high standards for code quality and system scalability.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer building production systems and platforms
• 1+ years of hands-on experience customizing or extending AI coding tools (agent skills, subagents, MCP servers, plugins, or similar)
• Deep working knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol): authoring servers, designing tool interfaces, scoping permissions, handling auth
• Strong backend and systems background in TypeScript, NodeJS, or Python with experience in REST and event-driven architectures
• Experience integrating AI into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, automated PR review bots, agentic test generation)
• Working understanding of AI security and governance: code/data egress policies, secrets in prompts, prompt injection risks, audit trails for AI-driven changes

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to share in company success
• Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• Generous annual stipends for professional and personal development
• Paid Parental Leave after six months of employment, plus access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits
• Flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and hybrid work model with in-office collaboration Tuesdays–Thursdays in San Francisco
• 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance, and tax-advantaged spending accounts

Skills & Technologies

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

MySQL

AWS

Senior

Hybrid

$174k-236k

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About Drata, Inc.

Drata is a compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence for security frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. It integrates with cloud services, identity providers, and SaaS tools to track controls, manage risks, and generate audit-ready documentation. The company serves technology startups and enterprises seeking to streamline security compliance workflows and maintain continuous monitoring without manual spreadsheets.

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