Staff Platform Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD, & Developer Enablement

Shield AI; San Diego, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI in San Diego, CA is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement internal platforms powering engineering, autonomy, and enterprise operations.

In this senior individual contributor role, you will craft scalable, secure platform infrastructure spanning cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, collaborating with security and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and developer productivity.

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.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve scalable internal platform infrastructure supporting engineering workloads across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem environments.
• Design and implement platform capabilities that enable standardized, secure, and repeatable application deployment of applications and services.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code frameworks and reusable platform modules to accelerate engineering productivity.
• Establish and evolve \"paved path\" platform patterns that simplify secure software delivery for engineering teams.
• Build automation and developer tooling that improves software delivery and engineering productivity.
• Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and developer platform tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce operational friction and improve system observability, resilience, and reliability.
• Develop internal tools, platform integrations, and automation frameworks that streamline engineering workflows across the organization.
• Design, implement, and operate highly available infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical engineering systems.
• Implement scalable platform solutions across cloud and on-prem environments including compute, networking, identity, and storage.
• Partner with security teams to embed strong security controls, auditability, and compliance requirements into platform architectures.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies that improve system scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Scripting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Shield AI in San Diego, CA is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement internal platforms powering engineering, autonomy, and enterprise operations.

In this senior individual contributor role, you will craft scalable, secure platform infrastructure spanning cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, collaborating with security and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and developer productivity.