Site Reliability Engineer 2, Production Engineering

Anduril Industries

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On-site
Location
Costa Mesa, CASeattle, WA
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$147,000–$185,000 / yr
Posted
5 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer 2, Production Engineering

The Site Reliability Engineer 2 - Production Engineering joins the Production Engineering team to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of the cloud infrastructure powering Lattice, an AI-powered command and control platform. This role involves building and improving monitoring, observability, and alerting systems, participating in on-call rotations, and triaging production incidents. You will develop shared reliability tooling, automate maintenance plans for Kubernetes, and partner with service owners to define Service Level Objectives and error budgets. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or Java, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or GCP. You will utilize tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Terraform to manage distributed systems, implement circuit breakers, and ensure secure production environments for sensitive defense data.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $206450 from 65 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and improve monitoring, observability, and alerting systems to detect and diagnose reliability issues.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to triage production incidents and coordinate response efforts.
  • Contribute to blameless postmortems to turn incident learnings into systemic infrastructure improvements.
  • Build and maintain shared reliability tooling and automation to reduce manual toil and surface risks.
  • Partner with service owners to manage Kubernetes patch risks and develop maintenance plans.
  • Help engineering teams define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets.
  • Collaborate on reliability patterns such as graceful degradation, circuit breakers, and deployment safety.
  • Create runbooks, documentation, and training materials to help teams operate production systems effectively.

What we're looking for

  • 2-4 years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in SRE, production operations, or infrastructure engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Hands-on experience troubleshooting Kubernetes in production, including version lifecycles and patching.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Rust, or Java to build production-grade tooling.
  • Experience building and using observability tooling for metrics, logging, and tracing like Prometheus or Datadog.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
  • Must be a U.S. Person and eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
  • Export controlled information or facilities.

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