# Staff Cloud Engineer (R5801) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $182K to $274K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/82c0fcad-9d7e-4eed-a1c8-b2ce99895f16
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-staff-cloud-engineer-r5801-2/

## 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

Tags: Software Ops