Description
Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its rapidly growing team in Irvine or Costa Mesa. The successful candidate will support both the Counter Intrusion team and the Air Defense team.
The Counter Intrusion team creates robotic systems that provide force protection capabilities by monitoring the perimeter of secure areas for approaching people, vehicles, and vessels. The Air Defense team fields Anduril's most complex capabilities, deploying unique combinations of hardware and software tailored to different mission requirements and customer expectations.
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will work with external stakeholders to determine the technical direction of cloud deployments and deliver with speed through analysis, design, and code. They will lead in the development of Kubernetes cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, and improving the developer experience.
Key responsibilities:
- Architect, deploy, and maintain infrastructure with cloud providers and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Collaborate with multi-disciplined teams to define and execute on internal and external deployments
- Promote SRE best practices in system resilience, performance monitoring, and high availability
- Design, develop, and deliver solutions using infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform and Python
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment
- Build strong relationships with internal and external customers to identify technical solutions to their problems
- Improve Anduril's operational capabilities by improving its core product offering through root cause analysis and creating tooling capable of managing large-scale deployments
- Lead the organization in building scalable, sustainable mechanisms to continue delivering to customers at the pace the business is scaling
Requirements:
- Holding active U.S. secret security clearance
- 6+ years of engineering experience
- Technical expertise and demonstrated performance in one or more of the following areas: networking, cloud technologies, application development, and/or cybersecurity
- Deep knowledge of the Kubernetes ecosystem (Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, Terraform)
- Experience with cloud services (AWS/Azure)
- Experience in software languages such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++
- Experience performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems
- Demonstrated ability to train peers or customers on the operation of a product
- Computer Science degree or equivalent
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with managing Kubernetes clusters of hundreds of nodes
- Knowledge of performance improvement techniques, metrics, and alerting
- Experience with KubeVirt, qemu, virtualization, and hypervisor technologies
- Experience with low-level frameworks, Linux, and databases
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
The salary range for this role is $191,000-$287,000 USD per year. Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, income protection, generous time off, family planning and parenting support, mental health resources, professional development, commuter benefits, relocation assistance, and a retirement savings plan.