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Staff Engineer, XBAT DevOps (R4542) (Dallas, TX)

Shield AI — Tracked from its lever job board

Dallas, Texas Senior+ USD 158,000–215,000 Posted May 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: 
As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll own our CI/CD and automation stack — driving developer velocity, pipeline health, and large-scale test execution from single-agent runs to cluster-orchestrated mission scenarios. This is a hands-on IC role that removes bottlenecks, accelerates iteration, and ensures every engineer can test and ship with speed and rigor.

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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