# Staff Engineer, Data Platform (R5659)

Hiring organization: [Shield AI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/shield-ai)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/def24375-823f-4419-954d-82ca868892ca

Listed on Shield AI's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: San Diego, CA
- Salary: 150000 – 230000 USD per year

## Summary

Staff-level role designing and building a data platform that integrates configurations, training data, and operational signals through a knowledge-graph API. Suits experienced engineers who want hands-on technical leadership balancing developer productivity, system performance, and long-term maintainability in a defense-tech context.

_Our summary, not Shield AI's wording._

## Skills named

API Design, Data Modeling

## Required

- Design platform architecture
- Implement production software
- Evaluate storage and compute technologies
- Establish data-modeling patterns
- Work with teams on mission-critical data
- Balance developer productivity with semantic clarity, reliability, performance, portability, and maintainability

Apply on Shield AI's site: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/0915a15c-9f24-4851-a375-006bab31d6c6/apply