Drata

Engineering

SeniorPlatformAIEngineer

$192–260k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Senior Platform AI Engineer at Drata. Skills: AI/ML infrastructure, Python, LLM APIs, Terraform. Design and build MCP servers. Design API schemas”

What You'll Achieve.

Minimize time to launch new agent in production; Build systems that make five other engineers faster; Deliver results; Achieve immediate impact; Deliver value

Industry & Context.

Engineering
Problems you'll solve

Ask 'are we solving the right problem?'; Spot when an architecture decision will fail at scale

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years building or operating AI/ML infrastructure in production, Python, Terraform, AWS, ECS, S3, Bedrock, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipeline design, API design, workflow orchestration engines, distributed systems, LLM APIs, model serving frameworks, vector databases, embedding pipelines, prompt management platforms, agent frameworks

Nice to Have

TypeScript, Node.js

What You'll Do.

Design and build MCP servers

Build and operate agent orchestration infrastructure

Manage model lifecycle

Operate and evolve production AI stack

Build CI/CD patterns for AI workflows

Own AI-specific observability

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with agent developers; Work closely with product engineers; Work with embedded SRE partner; Collaborate with stakeholders on technical tradeoffs; Explain AI-specific infrastructure decisions

Communication Scope

Communicate clearly about technical tradeoffs

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