# Staff Engineer, Engineering Tooling & Observability (R5720)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Melbourne
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Engineer for its Engineering Tooling & Observability team. The successful candidate will design, build, and maintain engineering tools that help developers understand and diagnose complex software systems.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and maintain engineering tools that help developers understand and diagnose complex software systems.

- Build tooling that brings together logs, telemetry, events, faults, diagnostics, and system state to make system behaviour easier to investigate.

- Build C++ and Python applications, libraries, services, and integrations that interact with complex onboard and distributed software systems.

- Create tools that correlate information across software components, processes, and machines to help engineers understand what happened and where to investigate.

- Build user interfaces and interactive visualisations using React and modern web technologies to explore system behaviour and engineering data.

- Design effective workflows for debugging, fault investigation, system introspection, and engineering analysis.

- Develop APIs and web services that support engineering tooling products and expose system data in useful ways.

- Improve the Developer Experience (DX) of working with complex systems by identifying engineering friction and turning it into effective tooling.

- Work directly with software, autonomy, systems, and test engineers to identify high-value problems and develop practical solutions.

- Treat internal tooling as a product, incorporating feedback from engineers and continuously improving usability and effectiveness.

- Establish reusable UI components, UX patterns, libraries, and engineering standards for system tooling.

- Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of the Engineering Tooling capability.

Requirements:

- Strong software engineering experience with modern C++, ideally C++17/20 or later.

- Strong Python development experience.

- Experience debugging and reasoning about complex, concurrent, distributed, or component-based software systems.

- Experience designing and maintaining production-quality software, libraries, services, APIs, or applications.

- Strong understanding of software architecture and the ability to navigate and reason about large codebases.

- Experience building tools for software engineers or other technical users.

- Experience working with logs, telemetry, metrics, events, traces, faults, or other diagnostic data.

- Ability to reason about behaviour across multiple software components and correlate information from different sources.

- Strong Linux development and debugging skills.

- Experience designing APIs, services, and software interfaces.

- Ability to independently identify engineering problems worth solving and turn ambiguous needs into practical, reliable tooling.

- Ability to make sound architectural decisions and collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

- Strong software engineering practices, including testing, code review, maintainability, documentation, and performance awareness.

- A product mindset toward internal engineering tools, with attention to usability and developer experience.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web application development.

- Experience with robotics, autonomous systems, embedded systems, or other complex physical systems.

- Experience with interactive data visualisation and presenting complex engineering data effectively.

- Experience with time-series, event, telemetry, or other high-volume engineering data systems.

- Experience with distributed systems and messaging architectures.

- Systems programming experience, including networking, IPC, and communication protocols.

- Experience designing UI/UX for technical or engineering applications.

- Experience developing desktop engineering applications.

- Experience analysing large-scale telemetry or diagnostic datasets.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- software engineering
- debugging
- software architecture
- API design
- Linux development
- React
- web development

### Nice to have
- TypeScript
- robotics
- autonomous systems
- embedded systems
- data visualisation
- distributed systems
- messaging architectures
- systems programming
- UI/UX design
- desktop engineering applications

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