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Staff Engineer, DevOps (4797)

Shield AI — Tracked from its lever job board

United States · San Diego, California · Dallas, Texas · Washington, DC Senior+ USD 150,000–220,000 Posted Apr 15, 2026
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About the role

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.

Job Description:
Shield AI is building autonomous aircraft that redefine aviation. The Software Integration & Operations (SIO) team builds the pipelines, tools, and systems that make fast, reliable delivery of complex aircraft software possible. 
 
As a DevOps Build Engineer, you will own and maintain the build system for our autonomous aircraft (XBAT/VBAT).  This role is primarily focused on Developer Experience (DevEx) and bringing DevOps best practices to our software engineers to accelerate their development cycles.

What the index says about this role

  • First seen by JobLarper — Aug 2, 2026, 6 days ago. Older postings collect hundreds of applicants — a tailored résumé matters more the longer a role has been live.
  • No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 177 indexed DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $165k and $250k, median $204k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from Shield AI.
  • What DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer roles ask for — across 1,405 indexed openings: Cloud (50%), Python (41%), REST/APIs (33%), Go (31%), Backend (24%).
  • Shield AI is hiring actively — 274 open roles indexed.

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