Shield AI
Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)
$220K–$340K
San Mateo, California · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years.
About the job
Establishes and leads the SRE function, improving the reliability, observability, resilience, and operational practices of cloud infrastructure and platform services.
What you'll do
- Define and implement reliability measures, monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing.
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, then drive engineering improvements to prevent recurring failures.
- Set the SRE roadmap, develop automation, and mentor engineers in reliability practices.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related fields.
- Experience operating production services with 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 supporting containerized applications and distributed systems; developing operational tooling or automation in Python, Go, or a similar language; and leading incident response and multi-quarter technical vision.
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 building, or engineering mentorship.
Pay
USD 220,000–339,974 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Python, Go, Kubernetes
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