Senior Engineer, Engineering Tooling & Observability (R5720)

The role

You will build tools that help engineers understand and diagnose complex software systems. The work focuses on developer-facing observability, bringing together logs, telemetry, events, faults and system state. You will work with C++ and Python systems, web services and React interfaces.

What you will do

• 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.
• Build C++ and Python applications, libraries, services and integrations for complex onboard and distributed software systems.
• Create tools that correlate information across software components, processes and machines.
• Build user interfaces and interactive visualisations using React and modern web technologies.
• Design workflows for debugging, fault investigation, system introspection and engineering analysis.
• Develop APIs and web services that expose system data in useful ways.
• Improve the Developer Experience of working with complex systems.
• Work directly with software, autonomy, systems and test engineers to solve high-value problems.
• Treat internal tooling as a product and improve it based on engineer feedback.

Required qualifications

• 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 ability to navigate 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 and turn ambiguous needs into practical, reliable tooling.
• Strong software engineering practices, including testing, code review, maintainability, documentation and performance awareness.

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.
• 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.

Before you apply

• Salary is contingent on a cleared background check and possible reference check.

About the company

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company that builds intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.