# Staff Engineer, Platform (R6019)

Job Description: We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to contribute to the Platform solutions and infrastructure that power Forge, the AI Factory. These components provide distributed runtime capabilities that enable teams to reliably orchestrate workloads, process data, and underpin the workflows of building an AI Pilot. The Forge Platform Engineering team provides Kubernetes-native capabilities that support autonomy development, simulation, testing, training, evaluation, deployment, and operational workflows across commercial cloud, on-premises infrastructure, sovereign deployments, edge environments, and fully air-gapped systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will define platform architecture, implement production software, establish reusable operational patterns, and partner with teams across autonomy, ML, simulation, test, infrastructure, and product engineering. Success requires balancing developer productivity, reliability, extensibility, performance, portability, and long-term operational maintainability. What you'll do: Build Kubernetes-native platform services: Develop and operate Kubernetes-based services, controllers, operators, deployment pa

- **Id**: 1123589
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shield-ai-staff-engineer-platform-r6019>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Diego, United States, San Mateo, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T18:31:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T14:32:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 52
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6430
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military Drones, Defense Manufacturing, Defense AI, Drone AI

## Company

- **Id**: 50
- **Name**: Shield AI
- **Domain**: shield.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shield-ai>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 74
- **Open postings**: 97
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.856
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 62
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 290000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 290000

## Technologies

- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Argo Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **Dagster** — Optional: yes
- **Envoy** — Optional: yes
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: yes
- **Flyte** — Optional: yes
- **GitOps** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Jaeger** — Optional: yes
- **Loki** — Optional: yes
- **NATS** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Prefect** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes
- **Redpanda** — Optional: yes
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 52

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T20:07:33Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-19T00:04:52Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-19T03:09:01Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-22T16:07:18Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-22T20:04:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 38
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 62
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 290000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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