Shield AI
Manager, Software Engineering (R5966)
San Diego, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience managing engineers responsible for production software.
About the job
Leads Shield AI’s Shared Services Engineering team in building and operating reusable services, APIs, SDKs, and customer-facing applications across its products.
What you'll do
- Build and manage the team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Set the roadmap and coordinate shared capabilities and integration boundaries across product teams.
- Guide architecture, delivery, and production operation of secure, reliable shared systems and interfaces.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including managing engineers responsible for production software.
- Technical judgment in designing and operating full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
- Ability to set technical direction, make tradeoffs, and execute across immediate and long-term priorities.
- Cross-functional leadership that builds alignment and trusted partnerships.
Nice to have
- Experience leading shared services and customer-facing applications from inception through production operation.
- Experience in identity and authentication, public APIs and SDKs, OpenTelemetry and high-volume telemetry, capability creation, adoption across product teams, or secure software in regulated environments.
Tools
Hivemind, SDKs, APIs, OpenTelemetry
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