Senior Site Reliability Engineer

# Senior Site Reliability Engineer Hybrid - San Francisco
** Our Mission & Values:
** At Drata, we help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. We’re the proof layer that shows great companies deserve the trust they aim to build.

We live our values every day. Built on Trust means consistency is everything. Act with Integrity by always doing the right thing. Being Customer-Obsessed keeps the people we serve at the center of our work. Competitive Fire drives us to push ourselves harder than anyone else. Diversity brings unique perspectives that lead to better solutions. Automation First ensures we save time and money by making efficiency a priority.
** Our Culture & Work Style
** At Drata, we’re not just building software - we’re building a mindset. Everything we do springs from:
* ** Be a Driver (Owner‐Operator Mentality):
** Own your work. Improve relentlessly. Deliver results.
* ** Move at Drata Speed (Precision & Velocity):
** Fast decisions. Quick learning. Immediate impact.
* ** Stay Mission-Driven (Customer‐Obsessed):
** Challenge assumptions. Deliver value. Stay hungry.

We pair that high-velocity culture with a
** thoughtful hybrid model
** because we believe flexibility and collaboration both matter. That’s why in the Bay we come together
** in-office Tuesday through Thursday
** our high‐impact collaboration days where teams align, strategize, and innovate. Mondays and Fridays are flexible, giving you space for focused work, balance, and autonomy.

If you thrive when you’re empowered, energized, and working with smart, mission-driven people where you’ll feel at home here.

The best way to understand the Driver’s Mindset is to see it in action. We’re an award-winning, mission-driven team of
** 600+ people worldwide**, united by a culture that values trust, speed, and continuous growth.
* Watch our CEO, Adam Markowitz, discuss the hyper-growth journey, from $0 to $100M ARR in just four years* :
Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available.* :
See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists.
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* Job Summary:

** Drata's SRE team operates as both a central engineering function and an embedded reliability practice. You'll be part of a close-knit SRE team where you grow your career, shape standards, and collaborate with peers - while also serving as the dedicated reliability partner for one of Drata's product engineering teams across the full lifecycle of their work.

This is a highly technical role at the intersection of software engineering and systems engineering. The best SREs at Drata are engineers first: they solve problems by building solutions, not by executing manual processes. Automation is a core value, and nowhere is that more visible than in how we approach reliability.

Our infrastructure runs on AWS across multiple accounts, defined entirely in Terraform. You'll work across a modern cloud-native stack to help Drata scale reliably for a rapidly growing customer base.
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* What you’ll do:

*** Reliability Architecture for Your Product Team
* You are the reliability expert for your aligned product team. You engage early - during architecture reviews and design discussions - to surface risks before they become incidents.
* Lead Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs) before new services launch, with the authority to flag gaps and gate launches when critical reliability standards aren't met
* Partner with product engineering leads and staff engineers to define SLOs and SLIs for critical services, turning reliability from a vague goal into a measurable commitment
* Participate in team planning and architecture reviews to provide proactive reliability guidance
* Build reusable artifacts - SLO templates, observability checklists, alerting standards, reference dashboards - that raise the reliability floor across the team, not just the services you touch directly
* Eliminating Toil Through Engineering
* You handle operational needs from your product team, but your job isn't to be a…