# Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA, San Diego, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $220k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Slis, SLOs, Monitoring, Alerting, Logging, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure As Code, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Incident Response, Root-Cause Analysis, Capacity Planning, Cloud Cost Management
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Leads the establishment and maturation of SRE practices across cloud infrastructure and platform services, improving observability, resilience, incident response, and operational tooling. Requires 7+ years of experience, major-cloud infrastructure expertise, infrastructure as code, distributed systems, and strong technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and implement service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and other reliability measures.
- 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 partner with engineering teams to eliminate them.
- Improve system resilience through automation, testing, capacity planning, and failure recovery.
- Develop tooling and automation to reduce manual operational work.
- Incorporate reliability requirements into system design with product and platform teams.
- Establish incident-response practices that improve detection, diagnosis, communication, and recovery.
- Mentor product engineers and SRE and Cloud Engineering teammates.
- Define and manage short- and long-term SRE roadmaps and distribute work across teammates.

## Required Qualifications
- 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.
- Experience leading incident response and root-cause analysis across engineering teams.
- Experience leading and executing a team's technical vision over multi-quarter timelines.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience establishing or maturing an SRE function within an engineering organization.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native observability systems.
- Experience operating systems in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, and cloud cost management.
- Experience supporting shared infrastructure across multiple products or engineering organizations.
- Experience building roadmaps in ticketing systems.
- Experience mentoring other engineers.

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