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Shield AI

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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