Site Reliability Engineer

Anduril Industries

Confirmed live today High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Waltham, MA
Salary
$112,000–$149,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $183k
This role $130k
$98k $243k
below market most similar roles pay here above market

This role pays less than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $146,250–$219,125 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $130k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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 943 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 911 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Anduril Industries

At a glance

TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE: Site Reliability Engineer The Site Reliability Engineer joins the Imaging team to ensure the health and uptime of fielded camera and sensor systems. This role serves as the frontline for troubleshooting deployed hardware and software, managing escalations from customer support, and diagnosing complex issues across networking, services, and hardware boundaries. You will build runbooks, diagnostics, and self-service tooling to resolve recurring problems and provide signals for better observability and safer upgrades. Required skills include Linux fundamentals, networking troubleshooting, and experience with production support for deployed systems. Preferred qualifications include experience with sensor calibration, Python, Bash, Nix, systemd, and PagerDuty. This role solves the technical challenge of maintaining reliable, real-time imaging systems in constrained field environments, ensuring that deployed security hardware remains operational and functional for military and allied users.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $187025 from 138 postings across 39 companies.

See salary data

What you'll do

  • Triage, diagnose, and resolve reliability issues for deployed imaging systems across networking, calibration, and hardware.
  • Act as the primary technical backstop for customer support escalations and field personnel issues.
  • Create and maintain runbooks, diagnostics, and self-service tools to resolve recurring problems.
  • Reproduce and document software defects to hand off to the Mission Software Engineering team.
  • Provide feedback to product teams to improve system observability, upgrade safety, and failure handling.
  • Conduct remote troubleshooting sessions with non-technical operators to resolve field issues.
  • Travel up to 20% of the time to provide on-site field support and deployment assistance.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, field/systems engineering, or production support of deployed hardware/software systems.
  • Strong Linux fundamentals including troubleshooting networking issues like IP, routing, and VPNs in constrained environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve issues across networking, services, and hardware boundaries.
  • Ability to own a structured on-call rotation including scheduled after-hours and weekend coverage.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for remote troubleshooting and documentation.
  • Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
  • Experience supporting fielded or deployed systems rather than just development environments (preferred).
  • Experience with fielded hardware or sensor systems and sensor calibration (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Site Reliability Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

Chantilly, VA +1 4 days ago $62,000–$141,000
Linux AWS Kubernetes Docker Jenkins Packer Git RHEL Nessus Jira Confluence Patching Hardening NIST 800-53 NIST-190

Site Reliability Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

McLean, VA 39 days ago
AWS Kubernetes Terraform Python Ansible Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana GitLab GitHub CloudFormation Elasticsearch Loki Alloy Kibana OpenShift Jenkins Bash PowerShell Groovy Ruby EKS JSON REST XML YAML Agile DevOps
6+ yrs exp

Site Reliability Engineer

Berkeley Research Group

Remote 107 days ago $130,000–$160,000
Kubernetes Azure AWS GCP Python Golang Ruby Infrastructure as Code CI/CD GitHub Actions GitLab CI Datadog OpsGenie PagerDuty SRE Incident Management Observability
5+ yrs exp Remote

Site Reliability Engineer II

Abbott

Sylmar, CA +1 12 days ago $81,500–$141,300
Azure Kubernetes Docker Python Go Bash PowerShell CI/CD Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Monitor Azure DevOps Prometheus Grafana Datadog Linux TCP/IP DNS HTTP/S TLS Distributed Systems Service Mesh Microservices Message Queues FinOps Disaster Recovery
1+ yrs exp

Fielded Site Reliability Engineer

Anduril Industries

Waltham, MA 2 days ago $112,000–$149,000
Linux Python Bash Nix NixOS systemd Networking SRE DevOps Observability PagerDuty Hardware Firmware Cloud Integrations
3+ yrs exp

Senior Mission Software Engineer

Anduril Industries

Waltham, MA 3 days ago $191,000–$253,000
Python C++ Linux gRPC React JSX Nix NixOS Networking Firmware Bare-metal Cloud Integrations Observability
5+ yrs exp