Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Software (R6010)
$130K–$230K
San Diego, California +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
San Mateo, California - Experience
- 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and operate developer tools and platforms that improve Hivemind engineering workflows, including integrating practical agentic AI capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design, build, operate, and continuously improve developer tools, platforms, and reusable workflows.
- Partner with engineering teams to address developer friction, enable collaboration, and drive adoption of tools and practices.
- Use DORA metrics, developer feedback, and adoption data to evaluate outcomes and guide priorities.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing and operating developer tools, platforms, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, or related production software.
- Experience owning software from design 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, or DORA metrics.
Pay
USD 130,000–230,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Git, GitLab, Backstage, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript/Node.js
AI focus
Integrate agentic AI into developer tools and workflows, evaluating opportunities and developing reliable, practical solutions.
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