# Staff Platform Engineer (R5668) 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 Diego, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $142K to $213K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/270ad491-2ae9-4df1-b986-9d4e1e943328
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-staff-platform-engineer-r5668/

## 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.)

Tags: Cloud & Infrastructure