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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer, AI Tooling - **Company:** Drata Inc - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $131,900.0 - $178,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Adobe InDesign, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software Bug Management, Code Generation, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Software Design Documents, Github, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Node.Js, Open Source Technology, Release Management, Runbook, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Web Applications, Prompt Engineering, Backend, AI Platforms, Restful APIs, Terraform - **Published:** June 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9a6d993c-0c6f-44db-83ed-23b2a84fbe4c ## About the Role * 3+ years of experience as a software engineer building production systems and platforms * Daily user of AI coding tools with experience customizing them: skills, rules, subagents, MCP servers, hooks, or extensions * Working knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) and how to expose internal tools to AI agents safely * Working knowledge of the Anthropic API (preferred) or equivalents: tool use, structured outputs, streaming, prompt caching * Solid prompt engineering experience for tasks with tools and multi-step agentic workflows, not just chatbot prompts * Strong backend skills: TypeScript or Python in production, REST APIs, async work, relational databases * Comfort building developer-facing tooling: CLIs, GitHub Apps, integrations * Awareness of the security side of AI dev tools: secrets in prompts, code and data egress, prompt injection inside repos, audit trails * Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) * Working knowledge of the Drata core stack, or willingness to ramp fast: NodeJS/TypeScript primary, with Temporal, MySQL, and REST * Experience with AWS * Familiarity with engineering productivity measurement frameworks (DORA, DX, SPACE) and what they're trying to capture * Curious and hands-on, comfortable in a space where best practices are still being written * Experience developing real-world web applications * Self-directed and able to own complete features * Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills * Strong written communication: clear PRs, design docs, runbooks * Agile development experience * Nice to have: published agent skills or open-source AI dev tool contributions, GitHub App development, Terraform * Self-motivated and adaptable to changing technologies and requirements ## Description The Platform Engineer, AI Tooling on the Developer Experience Team (part of Foundation Engineering group) will help build 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 the default way work gets done at Drata. 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 specific workflows, agentic workflows that automate code generation, verification, testing, and delivery, and the observability and cost controls behind all of it. Your "customer" is not Drata's normal users, it's Drata's engineers. You'll own meaningful pieces of the platform, work closely with senior engineers, and ramp fast in a space that's still being defined. You'll participate in design, coding, testing, and production release, and deliver code in an agile team environment. What you'll do: * Implement custom agent skills, subagents, hooks, and plugins for specific engineering workflows (PR review, test generation, on-call summaries, migration scripts, release notes) * Build agentic workflows that automate parts of the coding lifecycle: code generation, verification, testing, and delivery - agents that take a ticket and turn it into a tested, reviewable PR * Help engineering teams adopt and customize AI coding tools: pair with them on prompts, debug agents that misbehave, ship the skill that solves their actual problem * Wire AI into CI/CD: automated PR review, doc generation, test scaffolding, bug triage * Build the observability layer: usage telemetry, cost dashboards, audit logs for AI-driven changes * Design and run evaluations for agent workflows * Maintain engineering harness that the org reuses across teams * Investigate and fix issues: misbehaving agents, eval regressions, cost spikes, permission edge cases in MCP servers * Participate in design reviews, post-mortems, and on-call for the AI Tooling platform * Write reusable, testable, and efficient code * Stay current with new AI coding tools and patterns, and bring back what's useful * Research and train on technologies you think may be appropriate for current or future projects ## Related Videos - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [AI Won't Fix Your Engineering Culture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100266-ai-won-t-fix-your-engineering-culture) - [Coding for Good: Achieving social change with an app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1645-coding-for-good-achieving-social-change-with-an-app) - [Developer Experience in the Age of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1118-developer-experience-in-the-age-of-ai) ## Related Articles - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix) - [Never delegate the understanding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/749-never-delegate-the-understanding) - [The Prompt Engineer ✍️](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/216-the-prompt-engineer)