Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Software (R6010)
San Diego, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and operate developer tools and platforms for Hivemind, improving engineering workflows and incorporating practical agentic AI capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate developer tools, platforms, local workflows, templates, and reusable engineering capabilities.
- Work with engineering teams to identify friction, support collaboration and adoption, and use developer feedback and DORA metrics to guide improvements.
- Own solutions from discovery through operation and continuous improvement; at Staff level, lead cross-team initiatives and technical direction.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
- Technical judgment designing and operating developer tools, platforms, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, or related production software; experience owning software through deployment, operation, adoption, and improvement.
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native development practices.
- Experience with Git, GitLab, Backstage, or similar developer-platform technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience applying AI or agentic systems to software development tools and workflows.
- Experience with internal developer platforms, devcontainers, project scaffolding, inner-source development, or DORA metrics.
Tools
AWS, Git, GitLab, Backstage, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript/Node.js
AI focus
Bring agentic AI capabilities into developer tools and workflows, evaluating opportunities and developing reliable, practical solutions.
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