Senior Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (R5516)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.

For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. Why This Role Exists: We build and operate the platform that our engineers and our customers rely on.

The platform isn't a product that's ever "finished." It's something we improve continuously. Every deployment, outage, bug, and annoying manual task is an opportunity to make the system better. An L3 Platform Engineer is a fully contributing member of that effort.

This isn't a ticket factory. We expect engineers to think critically, collaborate closely, and continuously improve both the platform and the way we build it. How We Work: Our engineering culture is built on Extreme Programming and Continuous Delivery.

That means: Pair programming is our default way of developing software. We work in small batches. We integrate continuously.

We automate repetitive work. We test first whenever practical. We optimize for learning and feedback instead of individual velocity

The team