Staff Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & Distributed Systems

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the Forge Platform Engineering team, building Kubernetes-native services that orchestrate distributed workloads across cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. You will define platform architecture, implement production software, and establish reusable operational patterns to support autonomy, ML, simulation, test, and product teams. You will partner with autonomy, ML Ops, simulation, infrastructure, and customer-facing groups to turn