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Senior Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and

Company

Shield AI

Location

San Diego, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-03T16:15:24.037+00:00

Shield AI's Hivemind group is hiring an SRE lead to build out a reliability function for its cloud infrastructure and platform services. The job is hands-on: setting reliability targets with Cloud Engineering and product teams, improving observability, investigating complex failures, and converting incident lessons into engineering fixes. The lead also mentors engineers across Cloud Engineering and Reliability and sets reliability-first practices without adding needless process. The posting asks for deep technical experience in reliability engineering for production platforms and prior technical leadership.