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 synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.

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Job description

• Hivemind is looking for an experienced SRE lead to help drive the establishment of our SRE function.
• 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.
• You will investigate complex failures, improve the systems and tooling used to operate our platforms, and turn lessons from incidents into engineering improvements.
• You will provide technical leadership for reliability engineering, helping teams adopt practices that improve system health without adding unnecessary process.
• You will act as a thought-leader and mentor within the Cloud Engineering and Reliability teams to level up teammates and encourage building with a reliability-first mindset