Drata

Platform Engineer, AI Tooling

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3 months ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$132k - $179k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Implement custom agent skills, subagents, hooks, and plugins for engineering workflows such as pull request review, test generation, on-call summaries, migration scripts, and release notes.
  • Build agentic workflows that automate code generation, verification, testing, and delivery into tested, reviewable pull requests.
  • Help engineering teams adopt and customize AI coding tools by pairing with teams, debugging agents, and delivering workflow-specific skills.
  • Integrate AI into CI/CD for automated pull request review, documentation generation, test scaffolding, and bug triage.
  • Build observability capabilities including usage telemetry, cost dashboards, and audit logs for AI-driven changes.
  • Design and run evaluations for agent workflows and maintain a reusable engineering harness.
  • Investigate and fix misbehaving agents, evaluation regressions, cost spikes, and MCP permission edge cases.
  • Participate in design reviews, post-mortems, and on-call support for the AI Tooling platform.
  • Write reusable, testable, and efficient code and research emerging AI coding tools and patterns.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience as a software engineer building production systems and platforms.
  • Daily experience using and customizing AI coding tools, including skills, rules, subagents, MCP servers, hooks, or extensions.
  • Working knowledge of MCP and safe exposure of internal tools to AI agents.
  • Working knowledge of the Anthropic API or equivalent APIs, including tool use, structured outputs, streaming, and prompt caching.
  • Production backend experience with TypeScript or Python, APIs, asynchronous work, and relational databases.
  • Experience building developer-facing tooling such as CLIs, GitHub Apps, and integrations.
  • Awareness of AI development-tool security concerns, including prompt secrets, code and data egress, prompt injection, and audit trails.
  • Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions or similar tools.
  • Experience with or willingness to learn Drata’s core stack, including Node.js/TypeScript, Temporal, MySQL, and REST.
  • Experience with AWS and real-world web application development.
  • Familiarity with DORA, DX, and SPACE engineering productivity measurement frameworks.
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical, written communication, self-direction, adaptability, and feature ownership skills.
  • Experience with agile development.
  • Preferred qualifications include published agent skills, open-source AI development-tool contributions, GitHub App development, and Terraform experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in the Bay Area with in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday and flexible Mondays and Fridays.
  • Stock equity, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with up to 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and dependents.
  • Wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services.
  • 401(k), company-paid life and disability insurance, tax-advantaged spending accounts, and discounted voluntary benefits.
  • Paid parental leave after six months, Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits, and dedicated leave specialists.
  • Annual professional and personal development stipends and internal learning opportunities.
  • Flexible vacation policy and paid holidays.
Drata

About Drata

501-1,000 employees

Drata provides the trust network that enables businesses to operate, scale, and partner with confidence. Powered by AI and designed to operationalize trust, the Drata Agentic Trust Management Platform continuously interprets controls, risk, and assurance signals—reducing repetitive manual work while improving visibility into internal and third-party risk, enabling always-on audit readiness across compliance frameworks, and accelerating security reviews. Purpose-built for enterprise complexity, Drata unifies governance, risk, compliance, and assurance to deliver faster time-to-value, reduce operational overhead, and enable continuous trust for 8,000+ organizations worldwide.