Shift5 - Principal Platform Engineer
Requirements
• 10+ years in software/platform engineering, with 5+ years managing production infrastructure at scale. • 10+ years • 5+ years • Technical & People Leadership: Proven track record leading projects, designing architecture, mentoring engineers, and readiness (or prior experience) for direct people management. • Technical & People Leadership: • Cloud & Modern Delivery: Hands-on mastery of Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions/Earthly, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu, AWS/GovCloud). • Cloud & Modern Delivery: • Supply Chain Security: Strong background in artifact registries, container signing (Cosign/Sigstore), Vault, and SBOM generation. • Supply Chain Security: • Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship required). • Clearance: • Preferred: • Background in defense, aerospace, or regulated environments (NIST 800-53, IL4/IL5, CMMC). • Embedded Linux/OS experience (Yocto, SLE Micro) and airgapped/edge deployment models. • Experience deploying internal AI/LLM infrastructure (RAG, model gateways, governance). • Scripting proficiency in Go, Python, and Bash.
Responsibilities
• Release Engineering & Delivery Backbone: Architect and operate end-to-end release infrastructure (Lunar) and GitOps delivery pipelines using ArgoCD, EKS, GitHub Enterprise, and GitHub Actions. • Release Engineering & Delivery Backbone: • Supply Chain Security & Compliance: Lead artifact security (Harbor, Cosign, Vault Transit Engine) and build automated, compliance-by-default pipelines (NIST controls, SBOM generation) to eliminate program friction. • Supply Chain Security & Compliance: • OS Lifecycle & AI Enablement: Support hardware OS image builds (Yocto, Manifold) and productionize internal AI gateways, RAG tooling, and developer AI workflows (Cursor). • OS Lifecycle & AI Enablement: • Technical & Team Leadership: Author RFCs/design docs, run architecture reviews, plan roadmaps, and mentor mid/staff-level engineers. Provide direct management (1:1s, hiring, performance reviews) during transitions or scale. • Technical & Team Leadership: • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with security, embedded, and field teams to ensure seamless delivery across airgapped and edge environments. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: • What Success Looks Like • Predictable Delivery: Release engineering is seamless, observable, and fully trusted across teams. • Predictable Delivery: • Automated Security: Compliance evidence and SBOMs are generated natively in CI/CD without manual overhead. • Automated Security: • Governed AI: AI tooling is securely integrated, well-documented, and actively adopted by developers. • Governed AI: • Team Growth & Resilience: Engineering standards elevate across the org, priorities remain clear, and team leadership operates without single points of failure. • Team Growth & Resilience:
Benefits
• Bonus program and equity in a fast-growing startup • Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families • Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions • Employer-paid Life and Disability Insurance • Uncapped paid time off policy • Flexible work & remote work policy • Tax-deferred public transit benefits with Metro SmartBenefits (DC/MD/VA) • We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the diversity of our people and represents the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems. We strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
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