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Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCosta Mesa, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in site reliability engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related discipline, including experience operating at architecture or platform-wide scope.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and owning reliability infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams, including observability platforms, deployment systems, or incident management tooling at meaningful scale.
  • Deep technical fluency across distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, networking, storage, and layer-specific failure modes.
  • Proficiency in systems programming languages such as Go, Python, or Rust, or equivalent languages, for building production infrastructure, tooling, and automation.
  • Demonstrated experience defining SRE standards, production-readiness frameworks, or operational maturity models and influencing adoption across engineering teams without formal authority.
  • Track record of leading incident response for complex, multi-system failures and converting post-incident findings into infrastructure investments that prevent recurrence.
  • Ability to work independently through ambiguity, define reliability strategy without top-down direction, and sequence investments against competing organizational demands.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to influence senior engineers, engineering leadership, and cross-functional partners on infrastructure and reliability decisions.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.

Responsibilities

  • Set the reliability architecture for CorpTech Platform's production environment, including observability infrastructure, deployment systems, incident management, capacity planning, and failure-domain isolation.
  • Design and operate the observability platform, including metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and dashboarding infrastructure that provides engineering teams production visibility at scale.
  • Own deployment infrastructure and release-safety mechanisms, including progressive rollout systems, canary analysis, automated rollback, and deployment gates that support rapid shipping while protecting production stability.
  • Define and govern SLO frameworks that make reliability measurable and actionable, creating a shared language among SRE, product engineering, and leadership for trade-off decisions.
  • Identify systemic reliability risks across the platform and drive infrastructure or automation investments that eliminate failure classes rather than patching individual symptoms.
  • Establish production-readiness standards and review processes for engineering teams to use during design and pre-launch, embedding reliability into the development lifecycle.
  • Lead incident response for complex, multi-system failures and drive post-incident processes that produce durable systemic improvements.
  • Develop reliability patterns for AI-enabled systems, including monitoring for model behavior drift, non-deterministic output degradation, and graceful fallback under novel failure modes.
  • Provide technical direction to SRE and infrastructure engineers, facilitate cross-team architecture decisions, and represent reliability concerns in platform-level planning and prioritization.
  • Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance engineering for the platform's critical paths and shared infrastructure.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing or operating observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry at organizational scale, including decisions about instrumentation standards, data pipelines, retention, and cost management.
  • Experience building deployment and release-safety infrastructure, including canary systems, progressive delivery, feature flagging, and automated rollback mechanisms.
  • Experience with reliability engineering for AI-enabled or ML-serving systems, including monitoring non-deterministic behavior, building evaluation-driven alerts, and designing graceful degradation for model failures.
  • Familiarity with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, and AI-enabled software development workflows.
  • Experience in hyper-growth, startup-like environments, with demonstrated success scaling reliability practices alongside rapid engineering growth.
  • Familiarity with enterprise systems and business process domains such as ERP, MES, WMS, CRM, finance systems, or manufacturing systems.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

About the Company

Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Anduril builds autonomous weapons, such as drones, cruise missiles, and robot submarines, for the US military and its allies, often developing them with its own money before any order arrives. In 2024 it beat Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract to develop Fury, a pilotless jet that flies alongside crewed fighters. Its Lattice software merges camera and radar feeds into one live map and lets a few operators direct many drones and weapons at once, including other companies' systems. Governments buy its systems under contract, and Anduril builds much of the hardware in its own factories. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril in 2017, and it is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$11.5B
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, CA
Founded
2017

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