# Senior Engineer, Software (R6010)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 130,000-230,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

Hivemind is looking for an experienced Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join the Developer Experience Engineering team. The Developer Experience team owns the tools, platforms, and practices that shape how engineers build software for Hivemind.

You will build tools and paved paths that make development faster, more consistent, and more reliable. A near-term focus for this role will be bringing agentic AI capabilities into our developer tools and workflows in ways that deliver meaningful, measurable value to engineers.

This is a hands-on engineering role with broad organizational impact. You will partner directly with developers, identify recurring sources of friction, turn ambiguous needs into durable solutions, and drive adoption through documentation, advocacy, and close collaboration.

## Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and operate tools and platforms that improve the end-to-end Hivemind developer experience

- Advance local development workflows, devcontainers, internal developer platforms, project templates, and other reusable engineering capabilities

- Bring agentic AI capabilities into developer tools and workflows, evaluating opportunities and turning promising ideas into reliable, practical solutions

- Partner with engineering teams to understand developer needs, identify recurring friction, and create paved paths that improve productivity without limiting appropriate flexibility

- Enable co-development and inner-source collaboration through accessible tooling, documentation, standards, and contribution practices

- Drive adoption of developer tools by working closely with engineers, gathering feedback, providing guidance, and clearly communicating their value

- Own solutions through discovery, design, implementation, testing, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement

- Use DORA metrics, developer feedback, adoption data, and other signals to understand outcomes and guide investment

- Contribute to technical direction through design reviews, architectural decisions, thoughtful tradeoffs, and collaboration across engineering teams

- At the Staff level, lead cross-team initiatives, establish longer-term technical direction, and influence how Hivemind approaches developer productivity at organizational scale

## Requirements:

- 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience

- Demonstrated technical judgment in the design and operation of developer tools, platforms, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, or related production software

- Experience owning software from initial design through deployment, operation, adoption, and continuous improvement

- Systems thinking and the ability to turn recurring or ambiguous developer needs into coherent, reusable solutions

- Strong customer orientation toward internal developers and an interest in understanding and improving how engineering work gets done

- Effective collaboration and communication across engineering teams and organizational stakeholders

- Ability to advocate for new tools and practices, incorporate feedback, and build adoption through influence

- Experience with AWS and cloud-native development practices

- Experience with Git, GitLab, Backstage, or similar developer-platform technologies

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- developer tools
- platforms
- backend services
- APIs
- distributed systems
- AWS
- cloud-native development practices
- Git
- GitLab
- Backstage

### Nice to have
- Staff-level technical leadership
- internal developer platforms
- developer portals
- development environments
- reusable engineering frameworks
- AI or agentic systems
- Python
- Go
- JavaScript
- TypeScript/Node.js
- devcontainers
- project scaffolding
- service templates
- standardized local development environments
- inner-source development
- DORA metrics
- developer productivity measurement

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