Site Reliability Engineer 2 - Production Engineering
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$147k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and improve monitoring, observability, and alerting systems across the Lattice platform.
- Participate in on-call rotations, triage production incidents, and coordinate response and escalation.
- Contribute to blameless postmortems and drive systemic reliability improvements with service-owning teams.
- Build shared reliability tooling and automation to reduce toil and surface operational risks.
- Identify Kubernetes patch and version risks, develop maintenance plans, and track updates to completion.
- Help teams define and track Service Level Objectives and error budgets.
- Partner with engineering teams on reliability patterns such as graceful degradation and circuit breakers.
- Support capacity planning and performance testing for growth and peak operational demands.
- Create runbooks, documentation, and training materials for operating production systems.
- Improve deployment safety through progressive rollouts, automated testing, and rollback capabilities.
- Help incorporate security best practices and compliance controls into production environments handling sensitive defense data.
Requirements
- Requires 2–4 years of engineering experience, including at least 2 years in SRE, production operations, or infrastructure engineering.
- Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Requires hands-on production Kubernetes troubleshooting and knowledge of version lifecycles, patching, and operational risks.
- Requires strong programming skills in Go, Python, Rust, or Java and the ability to build production-grade tooling.
- Requires experience with observability tooling for metrics, logging, and tracing, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Requires hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and infrastructure-as-code practices, preferably Terraform.
- Requires the ability to troubleshoot distributed systems across multiple layers and develop durable fixes with service owners.
- Requires strong incident management and communication skills.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include defense, aerospace, or other mission-critical systems experience; performance optimization and capacity planning; chaos engineering and resilience testing; Kubernetes ingress and traffic management; GitOps and deployment automation; large-scale Terraform workflows; incident and alerting tooling; networking fundamentals; configuration and secrets management; and an active Secret or higher clearance.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive competitive benefits available at little to no cost, including health and recovery support.
- The role is a full-time position with a stated U.S. salary range of $147,000–$185,000; equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
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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.