Staff DevOps Engineer

Shieldai in San Diego Metro Area

Introduction to Shield AI
Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Shield AI is a fast growing, venture-backed defense-technology company built around a team of proven executives, distinguished warfighters, and world-class AI engineers. Since 2018, Shield AI’s products and people have supported operations around the world with the US Department of Defense and our allies.


As part of the HMC (HivemindCommander) team, you’ll design, manage, and improve cloud and on-pre infrastructure supporting services, data analysis, machine learning, simulation, and microservices.





Salary Range:  Base + Bonus + Benefits + Equity (if applicable)
Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here. All offers are contingent on a cleared background check.

Location guidelines-
Onsite = 5 days/week
Hybrid = Several days in the office
Remote = Remote but able to come to the office as requested for business needs

If you're interested in being part of our team, apply now!

Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
To conform to U.S. Government regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
    • Work with our Android and Desktop teams to ensure they have world-class infrastructure and processes
    • Understand and then enhance existing CI/CD processes to evolve a complete CI/CD infrastructure
    • Support CI/CD pipelines that build, test and deploy our Android, Desktop artifacts & C++ libraries
    • Work to level-up our security by automating certificate, secret, and key rotation
    • Maintain an up-to-date software toolset for our development environment on multiple platforms
    • Automate dependency updates, while maintaining stability
    • Run test suites on different platforms with memory and CPU/GPU constraints and different form factors
    • Implement data pipelines for client usage telemetry
    • Use best practices to setup and maintain production and staging environments
    • Work with teams of supremely talented software engineers who care deeply about the solutions they create
    • Other duties as assigned
    • At least 5 years in a Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure focused role.
    • BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
    • Fluent in a scripting language like Python or Shell
    • Experience with deploying, supporting, and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and applications stacks.
    • Demonstrated record of creating CI/CD pipelines
    • You are excited to jump into new technologies and paradigms
    • Strong technical collaboration and a desire to develop new skills
    • Excited by a fast-moving environment with a highly motivated group
    • Demonstrated ability to working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, and being kind to others
    • Knowledge of monitoring and request tracing solutions
    • Experience with hybrid cloud/on-prem environments is a plus
    • Expertise in Kubernetes (operators, CRDs, helm, etc.), Docker, and containerization principles and best practices
    • Monitoring and log mining experience
    • Knowledge of Bazel is a plus



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