Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Devices

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Irvine, CA
Salary
$182,000–$243,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above 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 900 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Devices

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Devices joins the Counter Intrusion MSE team to manage a fleet of autonomous Sentry towers. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability and uptime of systems deployed in harsh, remote locations by developing infrastructure for monitoring health, alerts, and telemetry. You will remotely diagnose issues across compute, software services, firmware, sensors, cameras, and power controllers while performing root-cause analysis on incidents. Key responsibilities include building automations to reduce manual toil, planning staged software and configuration rollouts, and maintaining runbooks. Required skills include Linux, shell scripting, TCP/IP networking, and observability tools like Datadog or Prometheus. You must be proficient in Python or Rust to build tooling for these edge devices and manage complex hardware and software boundaries.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 64 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build systems to monitor Sentry tower fleet health including dashboards, alerts, and telemetry.
  • Remotely diagnose issues across compute, software services, firmware, sensors, cameras, and connectivity.
  • Perform root-cause analysis on incidents and identify recurring failure modes.
  • Develop automations and tooling to roll out configuration and software updates across the fleet.
  • Plan and execute staged software, firmware, and configuration rollouts.
  • Write and maintain runbooks and troubleshooting guides based on incident trends.
  • Provide reliability feedback to hardware and software engineering teams.
  • Participate in on-call rotations for operational events.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, systems engineering, or a similar role running production infrastructure.
  • Strong Linux skills including systemd, journald/log analysis, SSH-based remote debugging, and shell scripting.
  • Solid networking knowledge including TCP/IP, VLANs, DHCP/ARP, firewalls, and troubleshooting connectivity issues.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
  • Proficiency in Python, Rust, or a similar language for automation and tooling.
  • Experience with incident response, root cause analysis, and writing clear postmortems and runbooks.
  • Eligible to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance.
  • Experience managing fleets of embedded or edge devices (preferred).

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