Senior Site Reliability Engineer

# Senior Site Reliability EngineerHybrid - 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.* Connect with Us on Socials: - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news.**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.**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 help desk. Your goal is to make each request the last of its kind. When an engineer needs something, your priority is: automate it so anyone can do it → document it so the team can self-serve → execute it manually only as a last resort.* Build and maintain Datadog monitors, dashboards, and alert routing - enforcing infrastructure-as-code standards via Terraform so those resources are owned, versioned, and auditable* Handle infrastructure requests: ECS task management, secret rotations, Terraform changes, capacity adjustments* Identify repeated manual work and convert it into self-service tooling or runbooks* Audit existing services for reliability anti-patterns and surface top risks before they cause incidents*Central SRE Platform Work*Beyond your product team, you contribute to cross-cutting infrastructure, tooling, and standards that benefit every team at Drata. Recent examples include automated Datadog governance workflows, dynamic AWS account provisioning, and disaster recovery exercises.* Design and build shared platform infrastructure - reusable Terraform modules, standardized observability stacks, service templates - so reliability improvements compound across the organization* Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident response when needed; conduct thorough post-incident reviews to drive lasting fixes* Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions* Contribute to evolving SRE standards, tooling, and practices across the organization**What you'll bring:*** 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or building and maintaining scalable, resilient services* Robust knowledge of cloud computing technologies: Terraform, Docker, Git, and Linux* Hands-on experience with Datadog for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, SLO tracking, and distributed tracing* Experience building software systems as a software engineer* Experience developing tooling and automation in Python and/or Bash* Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation, specifically GitHub Actions* Experience with disaster recovery practices and incident management* Strong understanding of observability concepts - monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, and metrics - and how to apply them to production systems* Experience with container orchestration and deployment technologies including AWS ECS Fargate and/or Kubernetes* Experience working with relational databases (MySQL proficiency is a plus)* Ability to take ownership of problems and act on them independently in a constantly evolving environmentNice to Have:* Experience with AIOps - using AI/ML-based tooling for anomaly detection, predictive alerting, or automated incident triage* Familiarity with the reliability characteristics of AI/ML-backed services (e.g., LLM inference latency, non-determinism, prompt pipeline observability)* Experience with the JavaScript/Node.js ecosystem* Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification* Familiarity with compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, or NIST**AI Experience** (required - at least one of the following):* Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate automation, scripting, or infrastructure work* Demonstrated use of AI/AIOps capabilities for reliability tasks - anomaly detection, incident triage, runbook generation, or alert noise reduction* Familiarity with the operational characteristics of AI/ML-backed services and what it means to make them observable and reliable in production* Demonstrated passion for AI through personal projects, contributions, or continuous learning in the context of infrastructure or reliability engineering**How we support you:**At Drata, our people are our strongest advantage—and we #J-18808-Ljbffr