Senior SRE Lead - Reliability & Operations

Shield AI; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI in San Diego, CA seeks an experienced SRE Lead to establish and mature reliability practices across cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will mentor teams, define SLIs/SLOs, drive incident response, and build tooling to automate operations while balancing speed and resilience.

This is a hands-on leadership role shaping the reliability culture across product and cloud engineering.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE or related roles with production systems experience.
• Experience with AWS or major cloud environments and IaC.
• Proficiency in Python or Go and building operational tooling.
• Strong incident leadership and root-cause analysis capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and other measures of service reliability.
• Build and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing for infra and platform services.
• Lead technical response to 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

Cloud engineering

Incident response

Python/Go

Root cause analysis

Distributed systems

Automation tooling

Leadership

Mentoring

Roadmap planning

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Go

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Go

Job description

Shield AI in San Diego, CA seeks an experienced SRE Lead to establish and mature reliability practices across cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will mentor teams, define SLIs/SLOs, drive incident response, and build tooling to automate operations while balancing speed and resilience.

This is a hands-on leadership role shaping the reliability culture across product and cloud engineering.