Shield AI
Staff Engineer, Platform (R6019)
San Diego, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- Significant experience; no number of years stated.
About the job
Provides technical leadership and hands-on engineering for Forge’s Kubernetes-native platform, building distributed services and infrastructure for AI development workflows across varied deployment environments.
What you'll do
- Build and operate Kubernetes-based platform services and distributed workload orchestration capabilities.
- Develop data-processing infrastructure and reusable platform components for security, networking, and operations.
- Define deployment architectures and operational practices, and partner with engineering teams to integrate and operate platform services.
What they ask for
- Significant experience designing and operating production distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, backend infrastructure, or data-intensive services.
- Strong software engineering skills and a record of delivering production systems in Go and Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals and experience with workflow orchestration, distributed job execution, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, or long-running workflows.
- Ability to set architecture and technical standards while implementing, troubleshooting, analyzing performance, and improving reliability; experience developing reusable platform capabilities across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes controllers, operators, Custom Resource Definitions, admission control, scheduling extensions, KubeRay, or workload-management systems.
- Experience with distributed workflow, messaging, data-processing, networking, observability, or infrastructure-as-code technologies.
Tools
Kubernetes, Go, Python, KubeRay, Ray, Temporal, Argo Workflows, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Builds platform infrastructure for Forge, an AI Factory, supporting workflows for building AI pilots and autonomy development, simulation, testing, training, evaluation, deployment, and operations.
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