Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
About the role
* Build and evolve scalable internal platform infrastructure supporting engineering workloads across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem environments. * Design and implement platform capabilities that enable standardized, secure, and repeatable application deployment of applications and services.
What they're looking for
- * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- * 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering roles supporting large-scale systems
- * Deep hands-on experience designing, building and operating cloud or hybrid infrastructure platforms, including networking, identity, compute, and storage systems
- * Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar)
- * Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines, developer platform tooling, and automated deployment workflows
- * Strong systems engineering background across Linux-based environments, distributed systems, and infrastructure automation using scripting or programming languages (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
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 .
This position may be based in San Diego, CA; Dallas, TX; Washington, D.C.; or other Shield AI locations.
Shield AI is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to help design and implement the internal technology platforms that power our engineering, autonomy, and enterprise operations environments.
In this highly technical individual contributor role, you will serve as a senior technical expert responsible for designing and evolving scalable, secure, and highly automated platform infrastructure spanning cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments. You will work closely with engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to establish platform architecture, develop paved...
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