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Senior Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)

Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Core Services & Infra
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San Diego, CA$190k - $280kFull Time EmployeePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior SRE lead responsible for establishing and maturing reliability practices across Shield AI's cloud infrastructure and platform services, with hands-on technical work, incident leadership, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and other measures of service reliability
  • Build and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing for infrastructure and platform services
  • Lead technical response to complex incidents and drive root-cause analysis through resolution
  • Identify recurring failure modes and work with engineering teams to eliminate them
  • Improve system resilience through automation, testing, capacity planning, and failure recovery
  • Develop tooling and automation that reduces manual operational work
  • Partner with product and platform teams to incorporate reliability requirements into system design
  • Establish incident response practices that improve detection, diagnosis, communication, and recovery
  • Mentor product engineers and drive adoption of strong reliability and operational practices
  • Mentor teammates in SRE and Cloud Engineering
  • Define and manage short-and-long term SRE roadmap, distributing work across teammates

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in SRE, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related fields
  • Experience operating production services with defined availability and reliability requirements
  • Experience implementing SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
  • Experience designing and operating infrastructure in AWS or another major cloud environment
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure provisioning
  • Experience supporting containerized applications and distributed systems
  • Experience developing operational tooling or automation using Python, Go, or a similar language
  • Ability to diagnose complex failures across applications, infrastructure, networking, and dependent services
  • Experience leading incident response and root-cause analysis across engineering teams
  • Experience leading and executing on technical vision of a team over multi-quarter timelines

Skills

Required:SLIs and SLOsMonitoring, alerting, logging, tracingIncident response and root-cause analysisCloud engineering (AWS or other major cloud)Infrastructure as codePython/Go or similar language

Benefits

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

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