Shield AI
Senior Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)
$190K–$280K
San Diego, California · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years.
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; drive engineering improvements to prevent recurring failures.
- Set the SRE roadmap, develop operational automation, and mentor engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related fields.
- Experience operating production services with defined availability and reliability requirements, and implementing SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Experience designing and operating infrastructure in AWS or another major cloud environment, with infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning.
- Experience with containerized applications, distributed systems, operational tooling or automation using Python, Go, or a similar language, and leading incident response and technical vision across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience establishing or maturing an SRE function; Kubernetes and cloud-native observability systems.
- Experience in regulated environments, capacity planning, performance analysis, cloud cost management, shared infrastructure, roadmap development, or mentoring.
Pay
USD 190,000–280,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Python, Go, Kubernetes
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