# Staff Platform Engineer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 123,000-185,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to help design and implement internal technology platforms that power 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.

## Responsibilities

### Platform Architecture & Engineering

- 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.

- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code frameworks and reusable platform modules to accelerate engineering productivity.

- Establish and evolve “paved path” platform patterns that simplify secure software delivery for engineering teams.

### Automation & Developer Enablement

- Build automation and developer tooling that improves software delivery and engineering productivity.

- Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and developer platform tooling.

- Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce operational friction and improve system observability, resilience, and reliability.

- Develop internal tools, platform integrations, and automation frameworks that streamline engineering workflows across the organization.

### Infrastructure & Systems Engineering

- Design, implement, and operate highly available infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical engineering systems.

- Implement scalable platform solutions across cloud and on-prem environments including compute, networking, identity, and storage.

- Partner with security teams to embed strong security controls, auditability, and compliance requirements into platform architectures.

- Evaluate and introduce new technologies that improve system scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

## Requirements

- 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.).

- Demonstrated ability to understand, build, and own complex platform initiatives and collaborate across engineering and infrastructure teams.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building or operating internal developer platforms (IDP) or engineering productivity platforms that support large-scale development environments.

- Experience with Kubernetes and modern container platforms.

- Experience deploying infrastructure across commercial and government cloud environments, including AWS and Azure.

- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and integrating security controls into automated infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience implementing observability platforms, including centralized logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing for large-scale systems.

- Experience working within defense, aerospace, or other regulated industries, including familiarity with frameworks such as NIST or FedRAMP.

## Skills

### Required
- Infrastructure as Code
- Automation frameworks
- Cloud infrastructure platforms
- CI/CD pipelines
- Developer platform tooling
- Linux-based environments
- Distributed systems
- Infrastructure automation
- Scripting or programming languages

### Nice to have
- Internal developer platforms
- Kubernetes
- Modern container platforms
- DevSecOps practices
- Observability platforms
- Defense or aerospace industry experience

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