Senior SRE Lead - Cloud Reliability & Observability

Shield AI; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. As the SRE lead, you will establish and mature the reliability practices used across our cloud infrastructure and platform services.

You will work with Cloud Engineering and product teams to define reliability targets, improve observability, and ensure that production systems can be operated and recovered predictably. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role.

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 on technical vision of a team over multi-quarter timelines.

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.
• Mentor product engineers and drive adoption of strong reliability and operational practices.
• Mentor teammates in SRE and Cloud Engineering.
• Define and manage short-and-long term SRE roadmap, distributing work across teammates.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Cloud engineering

Incident response

Python/Go

Automation tooling

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. As the SRE lead, you will establish and mature the reliability practices used across our cloud infrastructure and platform services.

You will work with Cloud Engineering and product teams to define reliability targets, improve observability, and ensure that production systems can be operated and recovered predictably. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role.