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Shield AI

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
San DiegoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Sep 9, 2026
Salary
$170,000–$310,000 a year
Full-time

Manager, Software Engineering (R5966)

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.

Job 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 including shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer…
  • 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

Job requirements

  • 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

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