Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (R5516)
Dallas, Texas · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
About the job
Builds and continuously improves the infrastructure platform used to deploy and operate customer environments, with a focus on automation, reliability, security, testing, and recoverability.
What you'll do
- Develop infrastructure as code and improve Kubernetes platforms and related systems.
- Build deployment automation, tests, and observability to reduce manual work and operational risk.
- Collaborate with engineers to design, troubleshoot, document, and improve platform capabilities.
What they ask for
- Comfort working across most of the listed technical areas, including Kubernetes, Linux, networking, CI, infrastructure as code, and distributed-systems troubleshooting.
- Ability to learn quickly and become productive in unfamiliar systems.
- Collaborative approach that includes explaining reasoning and tradeoffs and validating work contributed.
Tools
Kubernetes, Linux, GitLab CI, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Zarf, Packer
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