Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineering

Anduril Industries•Seattle, WA

About The Position

The Production Engineering team is a newly formed organization within Anduril's Software Platform, dedicated to ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of mission-critical systems that directly support our warfighters in the field. We solve complex reliability challenges at massive scale, ensuring that critical components of Lattice—Anduril's autonomous command and control platform—operates flawlessly in the most demanding operational environments. This is a foundational role and you will be among the first hires building this team from the ground up. You'll have the unique opportunity to shape the technical direction, establish best practices, and define what production engineering excellence means at Anduril. Our team operates at the intersection of software engineering and systems reliability, building the infrastructure, tooling, and processes that keep our systems operational 24/7/365. We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer who is passionate about building resilient, highly available systems that scale to meet the demands of the core systems powering Lattice. You will work closely with platform engineering teams, product developers, and field operations to proactively identify reliability risks, implement defensive strategies, and continuously improve the operational excellence of our software platform. If you thrive on solving hard problems at scale and want your work to have direct impact on national security, this is the role for you.

Requirements

7+ years of engineering experience with at least 3+ years focused on SRE, production operations, or infrastructure engineering
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, including operational challenges at scale (100+ nodes)
Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Go, Python, Rust, or Java with ability to build production-grade tooling
Proven experience designing and implementing observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, or equivalent
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and infrastructure as code practices
Demonstrated ability to debug complex distributed systems issues across multiple layers of the stack
Track record of improving system reliability through architectural changes, not just operational band-aids
Strong incident management and communication skills, with experience leading responses to critical outages
Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience with defense, aerospace, or other mission-critical systems where downtime has severe consequences
Expertise in performance optimization and capacity planning for high-throughput, low-latency systems
Knowledge of chaos engineering principles and experience implementing resilience testing frameworks
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and advanced traffic management patterns
Background in database operations and optimization (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, or similar at scale)
Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and deployment automation (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker, Jenkins)
Understanding of networking fundamentals including load balancing, DNS, TLS/SSL, and network security
Experience with configuration management and secrets management solutions (Vault, Sealed Secrets, SOPS)
Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Active Secret or higher security clearance

Responsibilities

Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, observability, and alerting systems to ensure early detection of reliability issues across the Lattice platform
Drive incident response and conduct blameless postmortems to identify systemic improvements and prevent recurrence of production issues
Build and maintain infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes operators, and custom tooling to manage large-scale distributed systems
Establish and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets to balance feature velocity with system reliability
Partner with software engineering teams to improve system architecture for reliability, implementing patterns like circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and chaos engineering
Develop capacity planning models and performance testing frameworks to ensure systems can handle growth and peak operational demands
Create runbooks, documentation, and training materials to enable teams to operate production systems effectively
Lead cross-functional efforts to improve deployment safety through progressive rollouts, automated testing, and rollback capabilities
Implement security best practices and compliance controls for production environments handling sensitive defense data
Build tooling and automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency for the engineering organization
Participate in on-call rotations and serve as an escalation point for critical production incidents

Benefits

Healthcare Benefits
US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.
Additional Benefits
Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development
Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
Retirement Savings Plan
US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.