Staff Platform Engineer

What you'll do

Required Qualifications

• * 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.
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• Full-time regular employee offer package:
• Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
• Temporary employee offer package:
• Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
• Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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• Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.