Product Operations Technical Specialist, Ghost

Anduril Industries

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Work type: On-site
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Salary: $98,000–$130,000 / yr
Posted: today

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Below market

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About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.

Anduril Industries currently has 1882 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Product Operations Technical Specialist, Ghost

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As a Product Operations Technical Specialist for Ghost at Anduril, you will join a dynamic team supporting the deployment and maintenance of Anduril's middle-sized UAS platform. Your daily responsibilities include triaging and resolving product incidents across the fleet, conducting root cause analysis, and improving observability through collaboration with various functions within the Ghost team. You will need experience with observability tools like Grafana and PagerDuty, Unix-like shells such as Bash or Zsh, and ideally Palantir Foundry for data-driven decision making. This role requires a Secret Security clearance and familiarity with incident-driven workflows in defense-related contexts, making it ideal for those with a background in STEM fields or experience in the DOD, law enforcement, or other government agencies.

Skills

Grafana PagerDuty Jira Bash Zsh Palantir Foundry Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Python PostgreSQL AWS Azure Git GitHub Terraform Prometheus

What you'll do

Triage, diagnose, and root cause product incidents for rapid resolution.
Drive postmortem actions and provide status visibility through issue resolution.
Improve fleet observability and health telemetry in partnership with the team.
Maintain awareness of current product specifications and bridge technical gaps.
Support failure debugging and ensure enduring system improvements are deployed.

What we're looking for

Secret Security clearance required
Experience in triaging and resolving complex product incidents
Familiarity with observability tools like Grafana and PagerDuty
Unix-like shell experience (Bash or Zsh)
Background in defense, STEM, or related technical field
Customer/technical support experience focusing on final-tier issues