Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Staff Platform Engineer at Shield AI will design, build, and operate highly available infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical systems across cloud and on-prem environments. Responsibilities include improving CI/CD pipelines, developer platform tooling, and automation frameworks; implementing scalable solutions for compute, networking, identity, and storage; and partnering with security teams to embed controls and compliance into platform architectures. The role requires 8+ years of hands-on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience with deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Linux systems, distributed systems, and scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell).