Site Reliability Engineer

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Waltham, MA
Salary
$124,000–$164,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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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 916 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 872 roles with salary data.

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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 while providing signals for product improvements. Key requirements include Linux fundamentals, networking troubleshooting, and experience with production support for deployed systems. Preferred skills include Python, Bash, Nix, systemd, and incident tooling like PagerDuty. You will solve real-world reliability problems in defense technology, maintaining systems in constrained environments and ensuring mission success through systematic root cause analysis and proactive communication.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $187850 from 122 postings across 30 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the health and uptime of deployed imaging systems by triaging and resolving hardware, network, and calibration issues.
  • 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 and reduce support load.
  • Reproduce and document software defects to hand off to Mission Software Engineers while managing all frontline support.
  • Provide feedback to the product team to improve system observability, upgrade safety, and graceful failure modes.
  • Conduct remote troubleshooting sessions with non-technical operators to resolve system malfunctions.
  • Travel up to 20% of the time to provide on-site field support and assist with deployment windows.

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 system boundaries including networking, services, and hardware interaction.
  • Ability to own a structured on-call rotation including scheduled after-hours and weekend coverage.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to lead remote troubleshooting sessions and document technical findings.
  • 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, including sensor calibration (preferred).

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