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Manager, Software Engineering (R5966)

Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Core Services & Infra
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Hybrid (San Diego, CA / San Mateo, CA)$170k - $310kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager leading the Shared Services Engineering team within Hivemind, responsible for building and operating common services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing applications that connect Shield’s products. Focus on architecture, roadmap, and production operation with a product-like mindset.

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 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

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

Skills

Required:Software engineeringTechnical leadership

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary employee offer package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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