Senior Production Engineer
Job Location:
Columbia, SC - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE TEAM
The SRE team owns reliability and infrastructure for Andurils cloud deployments. We operate Kubernetes clusters Terraform infrastructure and observability platforms across 10 production environments supporting active defense contracts. When platform services break under real operational load were the team that fixes them often at the code level not just the config level.
ABOUT THE JOB
We are looking for a Senior Production Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa CA (or DC). In this role you will be responsible for diagnosing and fixing stability vulnerabilities in core platform services that cause cascading failures in multi-tenant cloud deployments. You will write production Go to implement resilience patterns leader election circuit breakers failure domain isolation directly in service code. This will require deep experience with distributed systems debugging complex failure modes across service boundaries and writing production-quality Go. If you are someone who thrives on fixing hard reliability problems in live systems rather than building greenfield this role is for you.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Diagnose and fix stability vulnerabilities in core platform services that cause cascading failures under multi-replica multi-tenant operation
- Implement resilience patterns (leader election circuit breakers failure domain isolation) directly in service code
- Design multi-replica support for services that currently assume single-instance operation
- Collaborate with service owners on contract testing and upgrade validation
- Trace cascading failures across service boundaries and drive them to root-cause fixes
- Contribute to observability platform improvements to support service stability
- Light infrastructure work: Terraform/Kubernetes changes to support service fixes (20% of time)
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Production-quality Go youll be modifying core platform services not writing scripts
- Practical experience with distributed systems: leader election consensus replication failure modes
- Kubernetes enough to understand how services run (not necessarily cluster administration)
- Debugging complex systems tracing cascading failures across service boundaries
- 4 years in SRE platform engineering or backend development roles
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
NICE-TO-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS
- Rust (some platform services use it)
- Experience fixing reliability problems in production services (not just building greenfield)
- Familiarity with gRPC service architectures
- HashiCorp Consul or similar service discovery/mesh
- FedRAMP/IL5 compliance environment experience
- ArgoCD / GitOps workflows
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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