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Staff Cloud Engineer (R5801)

Shield AI · San Mateo, California · On-site

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About Shield AI

Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.

About the role

As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure and environments used to develop, test, integrate, and host Shield AI’s software products and platforms. You will work across AWS infrastructure, shared development environments, and supporting platform services to improve how these systems are provisioned, operated, and maintained.

What they're looking for

  • Experience supporting shared cloud infrastructure across multiple products or engineering teams
  • Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
  • Experience with infrastructure as code tooling
  • Experience designing automated or ephemeral environment lifecycle management
  • Experience operating infrastructure in regulated or compliance-driven environments
  • Experience implementing cloud IAM, access controls, and infrastructure security requirements
More about this role

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai . Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn , X , Instagram , and YouTube .

Cloud Engineering builds and operates the infrastructure and environments that support Shield AI’s software products and platforms.

As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure and environments used to develop, test, integrate, and host Shield AI’s software products and platforms. You will work across AWS infrastructure, shared development environments, and supporting platform services to improve how these systems are provisioned, operated, and maintained.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on infrastructure automation, reliability, and operational stability. You will troubleshoot problems across infrastructure...

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