Shield AI
Staff Cloud Engineer (R5801)
$182K–$274K
San Mateo, California · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates AWS infrastructure and shared environments for developing, testing, integrating, and hosting Shield AI software products and platforms.
What you'll do
- Automate and maintain cloud infrastructure and environment lifecycles, including containerized workloads.
- Improve infrastructure observability, reliability, security, and operational stability; diagnose and resolve issues.
- Partner with security and operations teams on controls, and optimize cloud cost and capacity.
What they ask for
- Experience supporting shared cloud infrastructure across multiple products or engineering teams.
- Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms and infrastructure as code tooling.
- Experience designing automated or ephemeral environment lifecycle management and operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
- Experience implementing cloud IAM, access controls, infrastructure security, and AWS cost management, capacity planning, or resource optimization.
Pay
USD 182,000–274,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
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