Senior Platform Engineer , AI Tooling

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 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. 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 architectural decisions that shape how AI shows up in every engineering workflow at Drata.

• 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 evaluations 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.

• 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:
  Git Hub Actions, automated PR review bots, agentic test generation, background coding agents.
• Strong backend and systems background:
  Type Script, NodeJS, or Python in…