# Staff Engineer, DevOps

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California / Dallas, Texas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $220,000 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/cdb92a85-1560-4f78-bf05-908748fce1f5
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_93884b35-ed6

## Description

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll own our CI/CD and automation stack, driving developer velocity, pipeline health, and large-scale test execution. This is a hands-on IC role that removes bottlenecks, accelerates iteration, and ensures every engineer can test and ship with speed and rigor.

### Responsibilities:

- Own and operate the CI/CD system across autonomy, embedded, and ground software.

- Improve developer velocity by reducing build/test cycle time and eliminating pipeline bottlenecks.

- Scale simulation test execution in CI , from containerized single-agent runs to orchestrated clusters.

- Manage infrastructure for builds and tests (Azure DevOps, Git, Artifactory, cloud build agents).

- Fully automate common tasks to create a self-service DevOps model allowing developers to be fully empowered.

- Partner with developers to resolve build/test failures quickly and set best practices for integration.

- Integrate CI pipelines with HIL and simulation environments for automated validation.

- Implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for CI/CD health and performance.

- Collaborate with the Developer Ops teams across Shield AI to introduce new technologies, best practices, and shared standards.

### Qualifications:

- BS in CS, CE, EE, or related field with 7+ years industry experience (or MS/PhD with 5+ years).

- Strong expertise in CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

- Proficiency with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, cloud build clusters).

- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).

- Hands-on experience integrating automated testing into CI pipelines.

- Demonstrated success improving developer productivity at scale.

- Demonstrated track record of excellence as a primary contributor on projects - showcasing the ability to navigate through development cycles, overcome obstacles, and deliver high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment

### Salary:

$150,000 - $220,000 a year

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD tools
- containers
- orchestration
- scripting skills
- automated testing

### Nice to have
- simulation test pipelines
- infrastructure-as-code
- monitoring