Head of Hivemind Dev Platform & Tooling

Shieldai

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Shield AI is seeking a Hivemind Development Platform Manager to lead the team that builds core tooling, packaging, and workflows for the SDK ecosystem. You will own the platform roadmap, license management, and service-backed components that enable customers to build and deploy SDKs across C++, Python, Go, and TypeScript.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, and Ops to remove friction in SDK development, improve reliability, and define operational ownership.

Qualifications

6+ years in software or platform engineering roles.
2+ years of people leadership experience.
3+ years of strong understanding of C++, Linux, CMake, build systems, and production packaging.
Deep experience with Nix, flakes, binary caches, remote builders, cross‑compilation, or custom Linux target platforms.
Experience building production‑ready developer tools, package managers, SDKs, CLIs, or artifact distribution systems from scratch.
Experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, or multi‑language package ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the Hivemind Development Platform team – coach and develop engineers, manage performance, and foster a culture of technical excellence, user empathy, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Set strategic direction for the Hivemind developer platform, in partnership with Product, Architecture, Software Operations and engineering leadership.
Own the developer platform roadmap, including SDK package management, Nix‑based build infrastructure, developer environments, toolchains, target platforms, package distribution, and release workflows, including the operational readiness of service‑backed components.
Own the customer‑facing SDK developer experience, including how users install the SDK, activate licenses, pull packages, build their own packages, and integrate with supported target platforms.
Drive cross‑functional collaboration with Pilot, EdgeOS, Forge, SoftOps, and customer‑facing teams to understand friction points and convert them into clear platform requirements.
Oversee architecture decisions for the standardized Hivemind package manager, CLI, package repository services, toolchain definitions, and reproducible build environments with a practical understanding of distributed systems, service reliability, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
Ensure the platform supports multi‑language SDK development across C++, Python, Go, and TypeScript.
Define metrics and signals for SDK developer productivity, package reliability, build reproducibility, release quality, and customer adoption.
Represent the voice of SDK developers in engineering planning by championing ease‑of‑use, reproducibility, reliability, and clear ownership across the Hivemind ecosystem.
Establish lightweight operational excellence practices for developer platform services, including ownership models, runbooks, monitoring and alerting, service‑level expectations, incident response, escalation paths, and release readiness.