Manager, Software Engineering (R5966)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

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 including shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal, and future public telemetry APIs 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

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

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

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