Senior Platform Architect & Release Lead — Remote

Shift5; United States; Remote; USD 255,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible work & remote policy

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Health Savings Account contributions

Life and Disability Insurance

Uncapped paid time off

Remote-friendly environment

Job summary

Shift5 is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to be the senior technical anchor for architecture and strategy. You will mentor engineers, drive release infrastructure, and lead cross-functional collaboration across security, embedded systems, and edge deployments.

You will guide OS image builds, secure AI gateways, and scalable AI workflows while shaping roadmaps and RFCs for the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software/platform engineering with 5+ years managing production infrastructure at scale
• Proven track record leading projects, architecture design, mentoring engineers, and readiness for direct people management
• Hands-on mastery of Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu, AWS/GovCloud)
• Strong background in artifact registries, container signing (Cosign/Sigstore), Vault, and SBOM generation
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship required)

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate end-to-end release infrastructure (Lunar) and GitOps pipelines using ArgoCD, EKS, GitHub Enterprise, and GitHub Actions
• Lead artifact security and build automated, compliance-by-default pipelines (NIST controls, SBOM generation)
• Support hardware OS image builds (Yocto, Manifold) and productionize internal AI gateways, RAG tooling, and developer AI workflows
• Author RFCs/design docs, run architecture reviews, plan roadmaps, and mentor mid/staff-level engineers
• Partner with security, embedded, and field teams to ensure seamless delivery across airgapped and edge environments

Skills

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Earthly

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS/GovCloud

Security & SBOM

Leadership experience

Tools

Cosign

Sigstore

Vault

Harbor

SBOM tooling

Job description

Shift5 is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to be the senior technical anchor for architecture and strategy. You will mentor engineers, drive release infrastructure, and lead cross-functional collaboration across security, embedded systems, and edge deployments.

You will guide OS image builds, secure AI gateways, and scalable AI workflows while shaping roadmaps and RFCs for the organization.