Full-Stack Engineer, Shared Services – APIs, SDKs & Secure Apps

Shield AI; San Diego, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI in San Diego, CA is seeking an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Shared Services Engineering team. You will design, build, and operate full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs, and APIs that connect Shield's products and customers.

You will partner with product and engineering teams to understand shared needs, turn ambiguous problems into durable solutions, and own your work from design through production operation, with emphasis on security and reliability.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to design and operate full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
• Systems thinking and the ability to turn recurring or ambiguous needs into coherent, reusable solutions.
• Track record of owning production software from initial design through operation and continuous improvement.
• Effective collaboration and communication across engineering, product, and organizational stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, and SDKs.
• Contribute to shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal, and future public telemetry APIs
• Partner with product and engineering teams to understand shared needs and develop reusable capabilities
• Establish secure, reliable, documented, and versioned interfaces for internal engineering teams and external customers
• Own solutions through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
• Contribute to technical direction through design reviews, thoughtful tradeoffs, and collaboration with other engineers

Skills

Full stack engineering

APIs & backend

Distributed systems

Production ownership

Cross-functional collab

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Shield AI in San Diego, CA is seeking an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Shared Services Engineering team. You will design, build, and operate full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs, and APIs that connect Shield's products and customers.

You will partner with product and engineering teams to understand shared needs, turn ambiguous problems into durable solutions, and own your work from design through production operation, with emphasis on security and reliability.