Staff Platform Engineer

Job overview

The Staff Platform Engineer role is listed in Boston, MA, with the posting also identifying San Diego, CA, Dallas, TX, Washington, D.C., or other Shield AI locations as possible bases. The listing describes a hybrid-remote arrangement and a salary range of $142,000–$213,000 per year. Shield AI develops intelligent systems intended to protect service members and civilians. The engineer designs and evolves secure, automated platform infrastructure across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments, enabling engineering teams to deliver software reliably and efficiently.

What you'll do

• Build and evolve internal platform infrastructure
• develop standardized deployment capabilities, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, and reusable modules
• improve CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
• operate highly available platforms
• implement compute, networking, identity, and storage solutions
• embed security and compliance controls
• improve observability, resilience, and reliability.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff platform engineer

platform engineering

infrastructure as code

devops

cloud infrastructure

ci/cd

developer enablement

boston ma

shield ai

$142k–$213k per year

hybrid remote

kubernetes

aws

azure

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Full-time regular employee package includes pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.

Why this role

Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience and eight or more years in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering. The posting identifies Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps, observability, and regulated-industry experience as preferred qualifications.

About the employer

Shield AI is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.