Staff Platform Engineer (R6156)

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Shield AI
Full time
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USA
10/02/2026
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San Diego, CA

Responsibilities

Build and evolve scalable internal platform infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments.
Design secure, standardized, and repeatable application deployment capabilities and paved-path platform patterns.
Develop infrastructure-as-code frameworks, reusable platform modules, automation, and developer tooling.
Improve CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, observability, resilience, reliability, and engineering productivity.
Design and operate highly available platforms covering compute, networking, identity, and storage.
Embed security controls, auditability, and compliance requirements into platform architectures.
Own complex platform initiatives and influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 8 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering supporting large-scale systems.
Deep hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud or hybrid infrastructure platforms.
Strong expertise with infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks such as Terraform or Ansible.
Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines, developer platform tooling, and automated deployment workflows.
Strong systems engineering experience with Linux environments, distributed systems, and scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell.
Ability to build and own complex platform initiatives and collaborate across engineering and infrastructure teams.
Experience with internal developer or engineering productivity platforms, Kubernetes, commercial and government cloud environments, AWS, Azure, observability, DevSecOps, NIST, or FedRAMP is preferred.
Experience in defense, aerospace, or other regulated industries is preferred.

Benefits

Full-time regular employees are eligible for bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
The role may be based in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., or other Shield AI locations.
Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.

Salary: $142k - $213k/yr

Shield AI

Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defe...

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