Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Software (R5970)
San Diego, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 4, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and operate shared full-stack software, services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing applications that connect Shield AI products.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, deploy, and support full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs, and APIs.
- Contribute to shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal, and future public telemetry APIs.
- Develop reusable capabilities with product and engineering teams, and help shape technical direction and reliable interfaces.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated technical judgment designing and operating full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
- Ability to turn recurring or ambiguous needs into coherent, reusable solutions.
- Track record owning production software from design through operation and continuous improvement.
Nice to have
- Experience creating shared capabilities adopted across multiple products or engineering teams.
- Experience in identity and authentication, public APIs and SDKs, OpenTelemetry and high-volume telemetry data, modern web applications, or secure software in regulated environments.
Tools
OpenTelemetry
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