Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Anduril IndustriesResponsibilities
- Set reliability architecture for CorpTech Platform production systems, including observability, deployment systems, incident management, capacity planning, and failure-domain isolation.
- Design and operate observability infrastructure for metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and dashboards.
- Own progressive rollouts, canary analysis, automated rollback, deployment gates, and other release-safety mechanisms.
- Define SLO frameworks and production-readiness standards adopted across engineering teams.
- Identify systemic reliability risks and drive infrastructure and automation investments to prevent recurring failure classes.
- Lead incident response for complex, multi-system failures and turn post-incident findings into durable improvements.
- Develop reliability patterns for AI-enabled systems, including model-drift monitoring, non-deterministic behavior detection, and graceful fallback.
- Provide technical direction to SRE and infrastructure engineers and influence platform architecture and prioritization.
- Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance engineering for critical platform paths and shared infrastructure.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in site reliability, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related discipline, including architecture- or platform-wide scope.
- Experience designing and owning reliability infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams, such as observability platforms, deployment systems, or incident-management tooling.
- Deep technical fluency in distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, networking, storage, and related failure modes.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or equivalent systems programming languages for production infrastructure and automation.
- Experience defining SRE standards, production-readiness frameworks, or operational maturity models and influencing adoption without formal authority.
- Track record leading complex, multi-system incident response and converting findings into preventive infrastructure investments.
- Ability to independently define reliability strategy and prioritize investments amid ambiguity and competing demands.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for influencing senior engineers, engineering leadership, and cross-functional partners.
- 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.
- Preferred experience with Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, deployment and release-safety infrastructure, AI-enabled or ML-serving systems, enterprise systems, and hyper-growth environments.
- Preferred eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits for full-time employees available at little to no cost.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of the total compensation package.
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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.