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Senior Engineer, Engineering Tooling & Observability (R5720)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – AUS / International Office Entity
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MelbourneInternational Office EntityPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focusing on Engineering Tooling & Observability to build developer-facing tools, observability, and workflows for complex software systems, with an emphasis on internal tooling as a product.

Responsibilities

  • 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 to make system behaviour easier to investigate.
  • Build C++ and Python applications, libraries, services, and integrations that interact with complex onboard and distributed software systems.
  • Create tools that correlate information across software components, processes, and machines to help engineers understand what happened and where to investigate.
  • Build user interfaces and interactive visualisations using React and modern web technologies to explore system behaviour and engineering data.
  • Design effective workflows for debugging, fault investigation, system introspection, and engineering analysis.
  • Develop APIs and web services that support engineering tooling products and expose system data in useful ways.
  • Improve the Developer Experience (DX) of working with complex systems by identifying engineering friction and turning it into effective tooling.
  • Work directly with software, autonomy, systems, and test engineers to identify high-value problems and develop practical solutions.
  • Treat internal tooling as a product, incorporating feedback from engineers and continuously improving usability and effectiveness.
  • Establish reusable UI components, UX patterns, libraries, and engineering standards for system tooling.
  • Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of the Engineering Tooling capability.

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 the ability to navigate and reason about 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 worth solving and turn ambiguous needs into practical, reliable tooling.
  • Ability to make sound architectural decisions and collaborate effectively across engineering teams.
  • Strong software engineering practices, including testing, code review, maintainability, documentation, and performance awareness.
  • A product mindset toward internal engineering tools, with attention to usability and developer experience.

Skills

Required:C++ (modern, 17/20)PythonDebugging and reasoning about complex distributed systemsSoftware architectureAPIs & web servicesLinux developmentObservability toolingDeveloper Experience (DX)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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