Senior Platform Engineer 2, AI Tooling

About this role

Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from.

Why Join the Drata Team? At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for:

- Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go.

- Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them.

- A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level.

- Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience.

- A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here https://drata.com/about/careers/life and follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all for company news, employee stories, and career updates.

Job Summary:

The Senior Platform Engineer II, AI Tooling on the Developer Experience Team (part of Foundation Engineering group) will lead the design and delivery of the internal AI platform that makes Drata's engineers more efficient - the tools, agents, and integrations that turn AI coding agents (and the rest of the AI dev stack) into a paved road for everyday engineering work. This is not a product-AI role - you're not building AI features for Drata's customers. You're building for Drata's engineers: MCP servers that connect AI agents to our internal systems, custom agent skills and subagents tuned to how Drata works, agentic workflows that automate the engineering lifecycle end-to-end (code generation, verification, testing, delivery), and the governance, observability, and cost controls that keep all of it safe and accountable.

Your "customer" is not Drata's normal users, it's Drata's engineers. 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.

What you’ll do:

- Architect the internal AI platform: MCP servers, agent customizations, agentic workflows, engineering harness, and integrations that make AI the default way engineers get work done at Drata

- 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

- Wire AI into CI/CD: automated PR review, test generation, doc generation, migration agents, bug triage agents, autonomous coding agents in pipelines

- 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)

- 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

- Measure adoption and impact with engineering productivity frameworks and adjust the platform accordingly

- 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

- Stay current with the AI coding tool landscape and bring back what's useful

- 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

What you’ll bring:

- 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 in a real engineering context: agent skills, subagents, hooks, plugins; agentic IDE rules and extensions; MCP servers; or similar

- Daily user of AI coding tools

- Deep working knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol): authoring servers, designing tool interfaces, scoping permissions, handling auth

- Strong working knowledge of the Anthropic API (preferred) or equivalents: tool use, structured outputs, prompt caching, batch API, streaming

- Solid prompt engineering experience for agentic workflows - not chatbot prompts, but multi-step engineering tasks with tools, verification, and recovery

- Track record of building agentic workflows that span the full coding lifecycle: planning, generation, verification, testing, and delivery

- Experience integrating AI into CI/CD pipelines: GitHub Actions, automated PR review bots, agentic test generation, background codi

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