Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud Infra & Automation

Lever, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Vor Ort; USD 142.000 - 213.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Equity

Benefits

Bonus

Zusammenfassung

Shield AI seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement scalable internal platforms powering engineering, autonomy, and enterprise operations. You will own architecture across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments, build paved paths for developers, and automate for reliability and security.

The role emphasizes collaboration with security and infrastructure teams and requires deep expertise in IaC, CI/CD, and scalable distributed systems.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related 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.

Aufgaben

• Platform Architecture & Engineering: Build and evolve scalable internal platform infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem environments.
• Automation & Developer Enablement: Build automation and developer tooling; improve CI/CD pipelines and artifact management.
• Infrastructure & Systems Engineering: Design, implement, and operate highly available infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical engineering systems.
• Collaborate with security teams to embed strong security controls, auditability, and compliance into platform architectures.

Kenntnisse

IaC automation

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Go

Bash

PowerShell

Cloud platforms

Platform ownership

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Jobbeschreibung

Shield AI seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement scalable internal platforms powering engineering, autonomy, and enterprise operations. You will own architecture across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments, build paved paths for developers, and automate for reliability and security.

The role emphasizes collaboration with security and infrastructure teams and requires deep expertise in IaC, CI/CD, and scalable distributed systems.