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Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer

Anduril


Job Location:

Costa Mesa, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 166000 - 220000
Posted: 5 September 2026 (4 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 3 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

ABOUT THE TEAM

Infrastructure Reliability Engineering (IRE) is a small but growing team responsible for the infrastructure and operations behind the core developer tools and on-prem compute platforms used across the entire engineering organization. We own the services every engineer depends on daily source control CI/CD and artifact management as well as the on-prem infrastructure behind simulation and GPU workloads. As the companys on-prem footprint grows this team is expanding its scope to provide SRE capabilities for on-prem systems so theres an opportunity to help shape that practice from the ground up.

ABOUT THE JOB

Youll own the full lifecycle patching upgrades backups scaling and incident response for services that engineering depends on daily. The role blends DevOps SRE and software engineering and is ideal for engineers who want high ownership and company-wide impact. You should have a mindset of continuous improvement: if something is manual and repetitive your instinct should be to automate it away.

WHAT YOULL DO
  • Serve as a primary owner for critical services including on-call and knowledge-sharing across the team
  • Own the lifecycle of core self-hosted developer tools (e.g. RunAI GitHub Enterprise Server CircleCI JFrog Artifactory/Xray)
  • Design and implement automated systems for patching backups (with validation) and upgrades
  • Scale infrastructure to support a fast-growing engineering org
  • Use Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) to manage environments
  • Operate and troubleshoot systems using Docker Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure)
  • Define and maintain SLOs for service availability reliability and performance
  • Build and maintain monitoring alerting and observability for developer tool services
  • Lead and participate in incident response and root cause analysis
  • Work cross-functionally with platform security infrastructure (on-prem and cloud) and software teams
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience operating infrastructure outside of managed cloud services bare-metal kubernetes and on-prem virtualization (VMware ESXi/vSphere)
  • Experience operating production systems using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Strong foundational knowledge of Linux (RHEL Ubuntu)
  • Proficiency with at least one cloud platform (AWS GCP or Azure)
  • Experience managing infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)
  • Experience with configuration management tooling (e.g. Ansible Puppet Chef)
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on automation
  • Scripting or software development experience (e.g. Python Go Bash)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
  • Ability to own systems end-to-end from design to incident resolution
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience with RKE2 (or other bare-metal Kubernetes distro such as k3s kubeadm or OpenShift) and Cilium
  • Prior experience with GitHub Enterprise Server JFrog Artifactory/Xray or CircleCI
  • Experience with GitOps workflows and tooling (e.g. ArgoCD/FluxCD)
  • Experience maintaining highly available scalable internal tools
  • Exposure to security best practices compliance requirements or auditing
  • Experience supporting large rapidly scaling engineering organizations
  • Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (e.g. Datadog Prometheus Grafana)
  • Background in SRE or hybrid SWE/DevOps roles
  • Experience with on-prem infrastructure operations reliability or capacity planning
  • Experience operating GPU or HPC infrastructure and workload schedulers (eg. RunAI Slurm Kubeflow Volcano)

US Salary Range

$166000 - $220000 USD

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:

Benefits

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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Required Experience:

Senior IC