Director, Site Reliability Engineering

ABOUT THE TEAM:

CorpTech Platform is the internal engineering force multiplier behind Andurils 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 Andurils 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:

The Director of Site Reliability Engineering owns the reliability system for the software that runs Andurils business and manufacturing operations. This role leads the SRE organization and partners with software engineering leaders to make availability resilience performance and production readiness shared engineering outcomes. The mandate extends beyond responding well when systems fail: it is to reduce the frequency and impact of failure through sound architecture durable infrastructure clear service ownership and disciplined operating mechanisms.

You will set the portfolio-wide reliability strategy build the team and leadership structure required to execute it and give senior leaders a clear view of operational risk and investment choices. The strongest candidate will combine deep technical judgment with organizational leadership and will know when to establish a common standard when to build a shared capability and when to enable an engineering team to own the solution directly.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Build and lead the Site Reliability Engineering organization including hiring coaching performance management succession planning and development of managers and senior technical leaders.
• Own the reliability strategy for CorpTech Platforms production portfolio translating operational risk and business criticality into a sequenced roadmap of engineering and infrastructure investments.
• Establish shared accountability between SRE and software engineering through clear service ownership SLOs production-readiness standards on-call expectations and escalation mechanisms.
• Set direction for observability deployment safety incident management capacity planning resilience and disaster recovery across business-critical systems and shared infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering product security and business operations leaders to make informed trade-offs between delivery speed reliability cost and long-term platform health.
• Lead the organizational response to critical incidents ensure communication and decision-making remain effective under pressure and hold teams accountable for durable post-incident improvements.
• Reduce recurring incidents and operational toil by turning cross-system failure patterns into platform capabilities automation architectural changes and clearer ownership boundaries.
• Define meaningful reliability measures and operating reviews that expose systemic risk guide investment decisions and demonstrate progress without incentivizing superficial compliance.
• Create a healthy on-call system with the staffing tooling training and management support required to sustain reliable services without normalizing burnout or heroics.
• Establish reliability practices for AI-enabled systems including appropriate observability evaluation degradation and fallback mechanisms for non-deterministic production behavior.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 12 years of experience in site reliability engineering production engineering infrastructure engineering software engineering or a closely related discipline including significant experience leading engineering teams and managers.
• Demonstrated success leading an SRE infrastructure or production engineering organization accountable for a diverse portfolio of business-critical systems at meaningful scale.
• Strong people leadership skills including hiring coaching performance management organizational design and development of managers and senior individual contributors.
• Deep technical fluency across distributed systems cloud infrastructure container orchestration networking storage observability deployment systems and the failure modes of each layer.
• Experience establishing SLOs production-readiness standards incident management systems on-call practices and operational maturity mechanisms across multiple engineering teams.
• Track record of improving reliability through systemic engineering investments and shared accountability with software engineering rather than relying on reactive support or manual controls.
• Demonstrated ability to assess operational and business risk prioritize investments across competing needs and lead effectively through complex production incidents.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence senior engineers executive leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience leading reliability for enterprise manufacturing or other operationally critical systems with complex dependencies and varied service maturity.
• Experience building or scaling an SRE organization in a hyper growth environment while improving both service health and engineering velocity.
• Experience operating in a federated engineering model in which reliability standards and shared capabilities must influence teams outside the direct reporting line.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled production systems including observability evaluation safeguards and graceful degradation for non-deterministic behavior.
• Experience with enterprise systems and business process domains such as ERP MES WMS CRM finance systems or manufacturing systems.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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