Senior Engineer Engineering Tooling and Observability
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and maintain engineering tools that help developers diagnose complex software systems. You will develop C++ and Python applications, APIs, services, React interfaces, and visualizations; correlate diagnostic data; improve developer workflows; and establish reusable tooling standards.
Requirements
- Strong modern C++ experience
- Strong Python development experience
- Experience debugging complex concurrent, distributed, or component-based systems
- Experience designing and maintaining production-quality software, libraries, services, APIs, or applications
- Understanding of software architecture and large codebases
- Experience building tools for technical users
- Experience with logs, telemetry, metrics, events, traces, faults, or diagnostic data
- Linux development and debugging skills
- Experience designing APIs, services, and software interfaces
- Software engineering practices including testing, code review, maintainability, documentation, and performance awareness
- Product mindset for internal engineering tools and developer experience
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain engineering tools for diagnosing complex software systems
- Build tooling that combines logs, telemetry, events, faults, diagnostics, and system state
- Build C++ and Python applications, libraries, services, and integrations
- Create tools that correlate information across software components, processes, and machines
- Build React user interfaces and interactive visualizations
- Design debugging, fault-investigation, system-introspection, and engineering-analysis workflows
- Develop APIs and web services for engineering tooling products
- Improve developer experience by converting engineering friction into tooling
- Collaborate with software, autonomy, systems, and test engineers
- Establish reusable UI components, UX patterns, libraries, and engineering standards
- Contribute to tooling architecture and technical direction