Senior Software Engineer, Tooling & Observability

Shield AI; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Engineering Tooling & Observability to build tools that help engineers understand, diagnose, and improve complex software systems.

You will work on C++ and Python applications, developer-facing observability, web services, React-based UIs, visualisations, and engineering workflows, bridging system knowledge with usable tooling for engineers.

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.

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.

Skills

C++17/20

Python

Distributed systems

Linux development

APIs / services

DX / tooling mindset

Tools

React

TypeScript

Web services

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Engineering Tooling & Observability to build tools that help engineers understand, diagnose, and improve complex software systems.

You will work on C++ and Python applications, developer-facing observability, web services, React-based UIs, visualisations, and engineering workflows, bridging system knowledge with usable tooling for engineers.