# Senior Platform Engineer 2, AI Tooling

**Company:** [Drata](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/drata)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Mcp (Model Context Protocol), Claude API, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Temporal, AWS, GitHub Actions, REST APIs, CI/CD, Prompt Engineering, Git, MySQL
**Posted:** 2026-05-26

> Lead design and delivery of an internal AI platform for Drata engineers: MCP servers, agentic workflows, CI/CD integrations, and governance. Requires 7+ years engineering experience and 1+ year building/extending AI coding tools.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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
- Design async, recoverable, long-running agent workflows using Temporal
- 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
- Design and run evals to measure which prompts, skills, and agents save time vs. cost time
- Measure adoption and impact with engineering productivity frameworks
- 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
- Participate in design and coding activities, write reusable and testable code, 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 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 — 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 coding agents
- Strong backend and systems background: TypeScript, NodeJS, or Python in production, REST and event-driven architectures, CI/CD systems
- Comfort building developer-facing tooling: CLIs, GitHub Apps, internal portals
- Working understanding of the security and governance side of AI dev tools: code and data egress policies, secrets in prompts, prompt injection risk inside repos, audit trails for AI-driven changes
- Understanding of LLM cost and latency tradeoffs as they show up in dev workflows: token caching, batch jobs, async agents, model selection
- Strong skills in the Drata core stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, Temporal, MySQL, Git, REST
- 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
- Outstanding ability to negotiate difficult tradeoffs (quality vs. speed, build vs. buy, mandate vs. paved road)
- Excellent written communication: design docs, RFCs, post-mortems

## Nice to Have
- Published agent skills, plugins, or open-source AI dev tool contributions
- GitHub App development at scale
- Terraform

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