Engineer II, Software Infrastructure (R3493)

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent, autonomous systems. Its products include Hivemind Enterprise—EdgeOS, Pilot, Commander, and Forge—as well as V-BAT and Sentient Vision Systems (wide-area motion imaging software). With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), Shield AI’s technology actively supports U.S. and allied operations worldwide.  For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X and Instagram.    

Job Description:

As a Hivemind Software Engineer, you will design and implement engineering centric automation across the organization. You will work closely with the rest of the Software Operations team maintaining infrastructure-as-code. This role requires you to be very hands on and contribute to discussions with cross-functional teams across the organization. We embrace an attitude that focuses on solving the root cause of problems efficiently. A large part of your day to day will be building out solutions to automate infrastructure, talking to enterprise operations (IT, Cyber), and the Developer Experience team. 

• Own all infrastructure-as-code for Hivemind 
• Own the monitoring tool stack, focusing on build infrastructure metrics 
• Own internal build containers used by all of the Hivemind organization 
• Support AI engineers with any infrastructure they need 
• Manage and own the performance, maintenance, and administration of Hivemind enterprise infrastructure including Azure DevOps, AWS, Artifactory, Containers, K8s, etc. 
• Work closely with the Developer Experience and Build & Release teams to improve engineer efficiency

• BS in computer science or related engineering field with 2+ years of professional experience. 
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Azure ARM, CloudFormation, Crossplane). 
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet). 
• Demonstrated proficiency in continuous integration/delivery (Github Actions, ADO, TeamCity, etc.). 
• DevOps experience with a cloud service (Google, Azure, AWS). 
• Knowledge of APIs, web services, and identity access management. 
• Knowledge of containers (Docker, Podman, etc.). 
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Bash, Python). 
• Knowledge of Git. 
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, ELK, etc.). 
• System administration in Linux. 
• Desire to learn and grow on the job. 

• Experience with a compiled programming language (e.g. C, C++, Rust, Go).   
• Experience owning build infrastructure. 
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm). 
• Ability to develop software, APIs, services, and tools 
• Proven experience owning a project from a simple idea to production product

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Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary 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. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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