Manager, Software Engineering (R5966)
At a glance
Manager-level Software Engineering role at Shield AI. San Diego · full-time · $170,000–$310,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and manage the Shared Services team, including hiring, coaching, performance reviews and career growth
- Set the roadmap for shared capabilities, balancing customer needs, product priorities, system health and longer-term engineering work
- Work with product and engineering teams to define shared ownership and integration boundaries for authentication, telemetry and customer-facing tools
- Guide the design, delivery and production operation of shared services, SDKs, APIs and customer applications
- Set expectations for secure, dependable, documented interfaces, and communicate progress, risks and tradeoffs to leaders
What you bring
- At least seven years in software engineering, including management of engineers who own production software
- You can make technical calls across full-stack applications, backend services, APIs or distributed systems
- You have set technical direction, balanced near-term delivery with longer-range needs and aligned partners across engineering and product
Who this fits
This is a hands-on engineering management role: you’ll lead people while staying involved in architecture and complex technical decisions. It suits someone who can turn needs shared across products into reusable capabilities and guide systems through production operation. The role is onsite in San Diego.
From the employer
Job Description:
Hivemind is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Shared Services Engineering team.
The Shared Services team is a product-oriented, full-stack engineering team that builds and operates common services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing applications connecting Shield’s products. These capabilities reduce duplicated engineering and help create a consistent Shield experience across product types.
You will lead the team as it identifies shared needs, establishes ownership, and delivers 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.
This is a technical, hands-on management role. You will guide architecture and delivery, remain engaged in complex engineering decisions, and build a team that owns its systems from design through production operation.
What you'll do:
- 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
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
Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment) Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information. ### Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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