Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Staff-level SRE who sets the reliability architecture for Anduril's internal corporate platform: owns observability, safe progressive deployments, incident management, SLO frameworks, and capacity planning for systems running business and manufacturing operations. Core tech: Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, Go/Python/Rust, and observability tooling like Datadog, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Compensation
- $191K–$253K / yr
- Location
- Costa Mesa, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years in site reliability, production, or infrastructure engineering, including platform-wide/architecture scope
- Experience designing and owning reliability infrastructure (observability, deployment systems, incident tooling) used by multiple teams at scale
- Deep fluency in distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), networking, storage, and their failure modes
- Proficiency in systems programming languages (Go, Python, Rust, or equivalent) for infrastructure and tooling
- Experience defining SRE standards, production-readiness frameworks, or operational maturity models and driving adoption without formal authority
- Track record leading incident response for complex multi-system failures and converting findings into systemic infrastructure investments
- Ability to work independently through ambiguity and define reliability strategy without top-down direction
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to influence senior engineers and leadership
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- U.S. Person status required for access to export controlled data
Nice to have
- Experience operating observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) at organizational scale
- Experience building deployment/release-safety infrastructure: canary systems, progressive delivery, feature flagging, automated rollback
- Experience with reliability engineering for AI-enabled or ML-serving systems
- Familiarity with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, and AI-enabled development workflows
- Experience in hyper-growth startup-like environments
- Familiarity with enterprise systems such as ERP, MES, WMS, CRM, finance, or manufacturing systems
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance
Full description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM:
CorpTech Platform is the internal engineering force multiplier behind Anduril’s corporate systems. It drives CorpTech engineering forward through strategic investment in data platforms, software platforms, QA and release excellence, ERP engineering, and AI infrastructure.
We build the foundations that power both CorpOS, enabling Finance and Growth to operate with speed and precision, and ArsenalOS, the digital backbone of Anduril’s hardware enterprise. By unifying systems, accelerating development velocity, and embedding intelligence into every layer, CorpTech Platform transforms how the company operates end to end.
We are also driving Anduril toward becoming an autonomous enterprise. Through initiatives like the Autonomous Software Factory, we are rethinking how software is built, tested, deployed, and evolved by integrating AI directly into the engineering lifecycle. CorpTech Platform is how Anduril scales its business systems with the same rigor, speed, and adaptability as its mission critical products.
ABOUT THE JOB:
This Staff SRE role sets the reliability architecture for the systems that run Anduril’s business and manufacturing operations. You are not responding to tickets. You are the person who decides how production works: how services are observed, how deployments are safe, how incidents are managed, and how reliability scales as the platform grows. You own the infrastructure and mechanisms that make reliability a property of the platform rather than a function of individual heroics.
The role carries broad organizational reach. You will influence how software engineering teams across CorpTech Platform build and operate their systems, set the standards that govern production readiness, and make infrastructure decisions that affect every service in the portfolio. You bring both deep systems expertise and the judgment to know which reliability investments matter most at each stage of the platform’s growth.
WHAT YOU"LL DO:
- Set the reliability architecture for CorpTech Platform’s production environment, including observability infrastructure, deployment systems, incident management, capacity planning, and failure-domain isolation.