Fielded Site Reliability Engineer
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$124k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, health, and uptime of fielded imaging systems.
- Triage and resolve incidents involving networking, services, upgrades, calibration, and sensor hardware.
- Serve as the first- and second-line technical escalation point for customer-support and operations channels.
- Create and maintain runbooks, diagnostics, and self-service tooling to reduce recurring support issues.
- Reproduce, document, and hand off genuine software defects to Mission Software Engineers.
- Improve observability, upgrade safety, and failure handling based on field reliability signals.
- Participate in a structured on-call rotation with scheduled after-hours and weekend coverage.
- Travel approximately 20% for field support and deployment windows.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, field/systems engineering, or production support for deployed hardware/software systems.
- Strong Linux fundamentals and experience troubleshooting networking issues involving IP, routing, VPNs, and constrained connectivity.
- Ability to diagnose issues across networking, services, and hardware boundaries with incomplete system visibility.
- Experience owning deployed systems after shipment, preferably including fielded hardware or sensor systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including remote troubleshooting with non-technical operators and incident documentation.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
- Preferred experience with EO/IR or optical sensors, sensor calibration, Python or Bash scripting, Nix or NixOS, systemd, Linux observability, and PagerDuty or equivalent incident tooling.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits available at little to no cost, including health and recovery support.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
- Approximately 20% travel is expected for field support and deployment windows.
- The role includes scheduled after-hours and weekend on-call coverage.
About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.