# Manager, Software Engineering (R5966)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 170,000-310,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead its Shared Services Engineering team. The team builds and operates common services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing applications connecting Shield's products.

You will lead the team in identifying shared needs, establishing ownership, and delivering reliable, secure, and well-supported solutions. You will treat the team's capabilities as products, maintaining a roadmap informed by external customers and internal engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

- Build and lead the Shared Services Engineering team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development

- Define and execute the team's roadmap, balancing customer needs, cross-product priorities, operational health, and long-term technical investment

- Partner with product and engineering teams to identify shared capabilities, establish ownership and integration boundaries, and guide initiatives

- Lead the architecture, delivery, and operation of shared services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing systems

- Establish secure, reliable, documented, and versioned interfaces for internal engineering teams and external customers

- Communicate plans, progress, risks, and tradeoffs across engineering, product, and organizational leadership

Required qualifications:

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience managing engineers responsible for production software

- Demonstrated technical judgment in the design and operation of full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems

- Strategic systems thinking and the ability to turn recurring needs across products into coherent, reusable capabilities

- Track record of setting technical direction, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and executing across immediate and long-term priorities

- Effective cross-functional leadership, with the ability to build alignment and trusted partnerships across engineering, product, and organizational stakeholders

Preferred qualifications:

- Track record of leading teams that build shared services and customer-facing applications from scratch and own them through production operation

- Depth in one or more relevant domains, such as identity and authentication, public APIs and SDKs, or OpenTelemetry and high-volume telemetry data

- Experience establishing a new engineering capability, consolidating fragmented ownership, or driving adoption across multiple product teams

- Experience building and operating secure, reliable software in regulated or compliance-driven environments

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- full-stack applications
- backend services
- APIs
- distributed systems
- strategic systems thinking
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- identity and authentication
- public APIs and SDKs
- OpenTelemetry and high-volume telemetry data
- secure software development

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