Senior Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer role is onsite in San Mateo, CA; compensation is $220,000–$339,974 per year. Shield AI is a defense-technology company whose intelligent systems are intended to protect service members and civilians; this role supports Hivemind cloud infrastructure and platform services. The role establishes and matures reliability practices, improves observability and recovery, and leads technical incident response. Through automation, engineering improvements, and mentorship, the SRE lead helps teams operate production systems predictably and build with reliability in mind.

What you'll do

• Define and implement service-level indicators and objectives
• improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing
• lead complex incident response and root-cause analysis
• eliminate recurring failure modes
• improve resilience through automation, testing, capacity planning, and recovery
• develop operational tooling
• partner with product and platform teams on reliability requirements
• mentor engineers
• manage the SRE roadmap and distribute work.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior staff lead site reliability engineer

sre

cloud infrastructure

san mateo ca

shield ai

hivemind

incident response

aws

kubernetes

$220k–$339,974/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• The posting describes bonus, benefits, and equity for full-time regular employees
• part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.

Why this role

Requires seven or more years in SRE, software, infrastructure, or related fields; production service operations experience; cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, containers, distributed systems, and operational tooling experience. Posting identifies the role as part-time; part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.

About the employer

Shield AI is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.