- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- San MateoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 3, 2026
- Salary
- $220,000–$339,974 a year
Full-time
Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)
Job description
Shield AI — Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803) (San Mateo, California).
Job 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
Job requirements
- 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
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