Senior Site Reliability Engineer

ABOUT THE TEAM

We are seeking a highly skilled and mission-driven Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Mission Autonomy this critical role you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability scalability performance and operational excellence of our cutting-edge autonomous systems. This isnt just about keeping servers up; its about building and maintaining the resilient backbone for systems where failure is not an option and mission success directly impacts national security. You will embed with our autonomy software development teams acting as a bridge between development and operations. Your work will directly enable our Mission Autonomy software and control systems to operate flawlessly whether in cloud-based simulation environments hardware-in-the-loop devices or air-gapped environments

What Youll Do

• Manage and expand specialized on-site infrastructure: Administer and grow on-premises developer servers Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) systems and other compute resources.
• Design implement and maintain highly available fault-tolerant and resilient autonomous systems
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in software and infrastructure ensuring low-latency high-throughput and real-time responsiveness for mission-critical operations.
• Develop and implement comprehensive monitoring logging tracing and alerting solutions to provide deep insights into system health and behavior at scale.
• Automate away manual operational tasks from provisioning and deployment to testing and recovery.
• Develop and implement strategies for scaling our services and infrastructure to meet evolving mission demands including distributed systems and edge deployments.
• Work closely with security teams to integrate best practices into our operational processes and infrastructure ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of our autonomous systems.
• Create clear concise and comprehensive documentation runbooks and playbooks for operational procedures.
• Integrate open-source commercial and Anduril-internal tooling to create effective solutions for software delivery.
• Collaborate with Andurils Developer Platform Networking and Security teams to support integration with broader Anduril systems.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team on challenging problems in a fast-paced environment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps or a similar role focused on security for mission-critical applications
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python Go.
• Experience with automation tools (Ansible Puppet or Terraform)
• Deep expertise with Linux operating systems and strong command-line skills.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and experience implementing security controls in cloud and on-premise environments.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP DNS HTTP load balancing) and their impact on system reliability.
• Proficiency with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
• Strong analytical problem-solving and debugging skills with a methodical approach to complex system issues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
• Active U.S. Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with edge computing mesh networks or highly distributed autonomous systems.
• Experience with embedded Linux systems development and associated tools.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (like auditd journald selinux Splunk).
• Prior experience in defense aerospace robotics or other mission-critical domains
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) and understanding of their core services.

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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