Shield AI
Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)
San Mateo, California · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in SRE, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related fields.
About the job
Establish and lead the SRE function for Hivemind’s cloud infrastructure and platform services, improving reliability practices, operations, and recovery.
What you'll do
- Define reliability measures and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, resilience, and automation.
- Lead complex incident response and root-cause analysis, then partner with engineering teams to prevent recurring failures.
- Set the SRE roadmap, distribute work, and mentor teams in reliability and operational practices.
What they ask for
- 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, using infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning.
- Experience supporting containerized applications and distributed systems, and developing operational tooling or automation in Python, Go, or a similar language.
- Experience leading incident response and root-cause analysis across engineering teams, and executing a team’s technical vision over multi-quarter timelines.
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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