Staff Platform Engineer — Cloud Automation (Equity)

Shieldai; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI in San Diego, CA is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement internal technology platforms powering engineering, autonomy, and enterprise operations. You will lead automation across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, collaborate with security and infra teams, and build scalable, secure platform architectures.

This role suits an experienced engineer who thrives at intersection of systems design and developer enablement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering or DevOps roles.
• Hands-on experience with cloud or hybrid infrastructure platforms.
• Strong expertise with infrastructure as code and automation.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and developer platform tooling.
• Strong Linux systems engineering background and scripting (Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell).
• Ability to own complex platform initiatives and collaborate across teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable internal platform infrastructure across cloud and on-prem.
• Develop paved paths for secure software delivery and standardization.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to embed controls.
• Enhance system observability, reliability, and performance.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Python

Go

Linux

Kubernetes

Security controls

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Shield AI in San Diego, CA is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement internal technology platforms powering engineering, autonomy, and enterprise operations. You will lead automation across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, collaborate with security and infra teams, and build scalable, secure platform architectures.

This role suits an experienced engineer who thrives at intersection of systems design and developer enablement.