backstage jobs in San Diego

Senior Engineer, Software role focused on building and improving internal developer platforms, tools, and workflows at Shield AI. Responsibilities include bringing agentic AI into developer tooling, partnering with engineering teams to reduce friction, enabling collaboration through accessible tools and standards, and driving adoption through feedback and metrics.…See more The role requires 4+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise in developer tools, backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, plus strong systems thinking and cross-team collaboration skills. At the Staff level, the role expands to leading cross-team initiatives and shaping organizational approach to developer productivity.

Design and build platform engineering infrastructure, tools, and automation for cloud-native environments on AWS, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), CI/CD, and observability practices. Develop reusable modules, APIs, CLIs, and service templates that improve developer experience and enforce security, compliance, and cost controls.…See more Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs, and incident response practices; participate in 24x7 on-call rotation with a focus on production reliability and automation. Requires 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or cloud operations with deep hands-on experience in multi-account AWS setups, GitOps, and observability platforms like Datadog or Prometheus.