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Shield AI

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
San DiegoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Sep 3, 2026
Salary
$150,000–$230,000 a year
Full-time

Staff DevSecOps Engineer (R5824)

Job description

Shield AI — Staff DevSecOps Engineer (R5824) (San Diego, California).

Job responsibilities

  • Design and implement security controls across AWS infrastructure and platform services
  • Build and maintain hardened container images and secure base images for engineering and production workloads
  • Integrate vulnerability, dependency, container, and configuration scanning into software delivery systems
  • Automate security and compliance checks to reduce manual review and improve consistency
  • Implement secrets management, identity, and access controls across infrastructure and engineering systems
  • Build mechanisms for audit evidence, configuration validation, and compliance reporting Identify security weaknesses in infrastructure, containers, and delivery systems and drive remediation with owning teams
  • Partner with Cybersecurity and Infosec to translate security requirements into scalable engineering controls
  • Work with Build Engineering and Cloud Engineering to integrate security controls without compromising reliability or developer workflows

Job requirements

  • 5+ years of related experience for Senior Engineer or 7+ years for Staff Engineer, or equivalent education and experience.
  • Experience implementing security controls in AWS or another major cloud environment
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure provisioning
  • Experience securing containerized workloads and building or maintaining hardened container images
  • Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD or software delivery systems
  • Experience with vulnerability management, dependency scanning, container scanning, or configuration validation
  • Experience implementing identity, secrets, and access controls in cloud or engineering environments
  • Experience automating security or infrastructure tasks using Python, Go, Bash, or a similar language

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