Fielded Site Reliability Engineer
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$112k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, health, and uptime of deployed imaging systems.
- Triage, diagnose, and resolve field issues involving networking, services, calibration, upgrades, and sensor hardware.
- Run first- and second-line technical escalations from customer-support and operations channels.
- Create and maintain runbooks, diagnostics, and self-service tools to reduce recurring incidents.
- 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 scheduled after-hours and weekend on-call coverage.
- Travel approximately 20% for field support and deployment windows.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, field or systems engineering, or production support for deployed hardware/software systems.
- Strong Linux fundamentals and experience troubleshooting networking issues involving IP, routing, VPNs, and constrained field connectivity.
- Ability to diagnose issues across networking, services, and hardware boundaries without complete system visibility.
- Experience owning a structured on-call rotation, including after-hours and weekend coverage.
- 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 supporting fielded or deployed systems rather than only development environments.
- Preferred experience with fielded hardware or sensor systems, including EO/IR, optical systems, or sensor calibration.
- Preferred scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar tools.
- Preferred familiarity with Nix or NixOS, systemd service management, Linux observability practices, and PagerDuty or equivalent incident tooling.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits are available at little to no cost to full-time employees.
- 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.