Senior Tooling & Observability Engineer

Shield; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Engineering Tooling & Observability in Melbourne to build developer-facing tooling and observability across C++ and Python systems. You will create tools that integrate logs, telemetry, events, and faults with system state to speed diagnosis and debugging.

You will work on complex onboard and distributed software, interface with React-based visualisations, and collaborate with engineers to improve DX by shipping practical tooling and reliable

Qualifications

• Proven experience in modern C++ development.
• Experience debugging and reasoning about complex distributed systems.
• Designing production-quality software, libraries, services, or APIs.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and large codebases.
• Experience building developer-facing tooling or observability data.
• Proficient with Linux development and debugging.

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

Skills

Modern C++

Python

Debugging concurrent systems

React UI

APIs & services

Linux

Git

Tools

Git

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Engineering Tooling & Observability in Melbourne to build developer-facing tooling and observability across C++ and Python systems. You will create tools that integrate logs, telemetry, events, and faults with system state to speed diagnosis and debugging.

You will work on complex onboard and distributed software, interface with React-based visualisations, and collaborate with engineers to improve DX by shipping practical tooling and reliable