# Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $340K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/93e815f8-9eed-45e0-a7da-b6438c37b9c8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-sr-staff-lead-site-reliability-engineer-r5803/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Software Ops