Principal Engineer, Platform

Shield AI

Principal Platform Engineer at Shield AI, architecting scalable internal technology platforms for engineering and operations. Collaborating with teams to improve reliability and security across cloud and hybrid environments.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeRemote • California, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudDistributed SystemsGoLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect and build 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 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 tooling that improves development lifecycle efficiency across build, test, release, and deployment processes.
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, integrations, and automation frameworks that streamline engineering workflows across the organization.
Design and operate highly available infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical engineering systems.
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.
Provide senior-level technical guidance across infrastructure, platform engineering, and DevOps initiatives.
Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering and infrastructure leadership on platform architecture decisions.
Mentor engineers and promote best practices in automation, reliability engineering, and platform design.
Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve the scalability and reliability of Shield AI’s internal systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering roles supporting large-scale systems.
Deep hands-on experience designing 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, Bicep, 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 lead complex platform initiatives and influence technical direction across engineering and infrastructure teams.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to operate independently in complex, fast-moving technical environments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

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Hard Skills & Tools

platform engineeringDevOpsinfrastructure engineeringsite reliability engineeringInfrastructure as CodeTerraformBicepAnsibleCI/CD pipelinesscripting

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationleadershipmentoringinfluenceindependenceproblem-solvingtechnical guidancebest practices promotionoperational efficiency

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineeringrelated technical field