Senior Production Engineer

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Costa Mesa, CA · Washington, DC
Salary
$191,000–$287,000 / yr
Posted
today

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Above market

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This role $239k
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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 · Senior Production Engineer

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The Senior Production Engineer role at Anduril's SRE team in Costa Mesa, CA or DC involves diagnosing and fixing stability vulnerabilities in core platform services to prevent cascading failures in multi-tenant cloud deployments. Daily tasks include implementing resilience patterns such as leader election and circuit breakers directly in service code using Go, designing multi-replica support for single-instance services, and collaborating with service owners on contract testing and upgrade validation. The ideal candidate has deep experience with distributed systems, debugging complex failure modes, and writing production-quality Go, along with practical knowledge of Kubernetes and familiarity with FedRAMP/IL5 compliance environments.

Skills

Go Kubernetes Terraform Distributed systems Debugging complex systems CI/CD Observability gRPC HashiCorp Consul Rust FedRAMP/IL5 compliance ArgoCD/GitOps

What you'll do

  • Diagnose and fix stability vulnerabilities causing cascading failures in multi-replica, multi-tenant cloud deployments.
  • Implement resilience patterns like leader election, circuit breakers, and failure domain isolation directly in service code.
  • Design multi-replica support for services that currently operate as single instances.
  • Trace complex failures across service boundaries to identify root causes and implement fixes.
  • Contribute to observability platform improvements to enhance service stability monitoring.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or backend development roles
  • Deep practical experience with distributed systems and their failure modes
  • Expertise in diagnosing and fixing stability issues in production Go services
  • Strong Kubernetes understanding for service operation context
  • Experience implementing resilience patterns like leader election and circuit breakers

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