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Sr. Staff Platform/Data Reliability Engineer, Databricks (R5537)

Shieldai

LocationUnited States
Senioritylead
CompanyShieldai
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Compensation

$180k-$270k

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12+ years stated

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Customer success, Data, DevOps, Finance and investments, Healthcare admin, Operations, Product, Security, Software, Customer support

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United States

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lead · full_time

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Job description

Sr. Staff Platform/Data Reliability Engineer, Databricks (R5537) at Shieldai

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.

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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Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

What you'll do

Own operational excellence for the Databricks platform, including monitoring, alerting, observability, incident response support, and production runbook patterns for data jobs and platform services.

Define and maintain CI/CD and promotion standards for Databricks assets, including workflows, jobs, notebooks, code packages, infrastructure configuration, and environment promotion from dev to prod.

Design and maintain platform standards for job orchestration, cluster and compute policies, service principal usage, environment isolation, and production execution reliability.

Establish reusable operational templates and enablement patterns for new domains onboarding to Databricks, including logging conventions, job tagging, metadata capture, and support handoff expectations.

Partner with the Senior Data Engineer to ensure ingestion and medallion patterns are implemented in a way that is observable, recoverable, cost-aware, and secure in production.

Work with the cloud/infrastructure team to align Databricks configuration and usage patterns with broader enterprise cloud standards, especially where commercial and future government-hosted environments are involved.

Help enforce technical controls for data segregation, access boundaries, and operational compliance in a highly regulated environment.

Track and improve platform health metrics such as job success rates, incident trends, data pipeline reliability, cost efficiency, and environment drift.

Document platform standards, operational expectations, and support models so the Databricks platform can scale beyond a small founding team.

Mentor internal engineers who are growing into platform responsibilities, helping expand Databricks operational knowledge within the team.

Required qualifications

12+ years of relevant experience in data platform engineering, platform operations, site reliability engineering, or modern cloud data infrastructure.

Hands-on experience with Databricks or a closely related cloud data platform in production environments.

Experience designing or operating CI/CD, environment promotion, version control, and deployment automation for data platforms and pipelines.

Strong understanding of platform operations concepts such as observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and reliability engineering.

Experience with compute policy design, workload isolation, service principals, and secure production execution patterns on cloud data platforms.

Ability to work effectively in a regulated or security-sensitive environment with strong expectations around access control, auditability, and operational discipline.

Strong collaboration skills and comfort partnering with cloud/infrastructure, security, data engineering, and analytics stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

Databricks certification and/or strong demonstrated expertise with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, and Databricks Asset Bundles.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and platform automation in enterprise environments.

Experience supporting commercial and government or otherwise segregated environments with different compliance and access requirements.

Experience in defense, aerospace, federal, or another regulated industry.

Department: Enterprise Operations Division.

ATS provider: Lever.

Salary: USD 180000-270000 per-year-salary.

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