Staff Platform Engineer (R6156)

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.