Platform Reliability Engineer - Databricks & Observability

Roboticsconnected; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI, a defense-tech innovator, seeks a Sr. Staff Platform / Data Reliability Engineer to make the Databricks lakehouse reliable, secure, scalable, and operationally mature for enterprise use.

The role focuses on the platform layer above foundational infrastructure, ensuring regulated data handling and growing production workloads while maintaining governance and efficient deployment patterns. Collaboration with data and cloud teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience enabling a reliable, secure Databricks lakehouse at scale.
• Ability to work with cross-functional Cloud & Infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Owns Databricks reliability, observability, and deployment standards for a scalable lakehouse.
• Collaborates with the Cloud & Infrastructure team to ensure governance, compute policies, and platform enablement patterns for internal users.

Job description

Shield AI, a defense-tech innovator, seeks a Sr. Staff Platform / Data Reliability Engineer to make the Databricks lakehouse reliable, secure, scalable, and operationally mature for enterprise use.

The role focuses on the platform layer above foundational infrastructure, ensuring regulated data handling and growing production workloads while maintaining governance and efficient deployment patterns. Collaboration with data and cloud teams is essential.