Shield AI
Senior Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)
San Diego, California · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in SRE, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related fields.
About the job
Establishes and leads SRE practices for cloud infrastructure and platform services, improving reliability, observability, incident response, and recovery.
What you'll do
- Define reliability measures and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing.
- Lead complex incident response and root-cause analysis, then drive engineering improvements to prevent recurring failures.
- Set the SRE roadmap, develop operational automation, and mentor engineers in reliability practices.
What they ask for
- Experience operating production services with defined availability and reliability requirements, and implementing reliability measures and incident response practices.
- Experience designing and operating infrastructure in AWS or another major cloud environment, using infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning.
- Experience supporting containerized applications and distributed systems, and developing operational tooling with Python, Go, or a similar language.
- Experience leading incident response and technical vision across multi-quarter timelines; ability to diagnose complex failures across systems.
Nice to have
- Experience establishing or maturing an SRE function; Kubernetes and cloud-native observability experience.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-driven environments, capacity planning, performance analysis, cloud cost management, or shared infrastructure.
Tools
AWS, Python, Go, Kubernetes
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