Senior Site Reliability Engineer
at Drata
- Seniority
- Senior
- Work model
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full Time
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco
- Posted
- 12d ago
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at Drata
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, you’ll feel at home here. Why Join The Drata Team? 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. - See the Speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidTdkGwKMY Watch our CEO, Adam Markowitz, discuss the hyper-growth journey, from $0 to $100M ARR in just four years - Hear the Voice of the Team https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata: Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available. - Experience the Impact https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7044563: See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists. - Connect with Us on Socials: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all - 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 En