Director, Site Reliability Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Director of Site Reliability Engineering owns the reliability system for the software that runs Anduril's business and manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities:

• Build and lead the Site Reliability Engineering organization, including hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and development of managers and senior technical leaders.
• Own the reliability strategy for CorpTech Platform's production portfolio, translating operational risk and business criticality into a sequenced roadmap of engineering and infrastructure investments.
• Establish shared accountability between SRE and software engineering through clear service ownership, SLOs, production-readiness standards, on-call expectations, and escalation mechanisms.
• Set direction for observability, deployment safety, incident management, capacity planning, resilience, and disaster recovery across business-critical systems and shared infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering, product, security, and business operations leaders to make informed trade-offs between delivery speed, reliability, cost, and long-term platform health.
• Lead the organizational response to critical incidents, ensure communication and decision-making remain effective under pressure, and hold teams accountable for durable post-incident improvements.
• Reduce recurring incidents and operational toil by turning cross-system failure patterns into platform capabilities, automation, architectural changes, and clearer ownership boundaries.
• Define meaningful reliability measures and operating reviews that expose systemic risk, guide investment decisions, and demonstrate progress without incentivizing superficial compliance.
• Create a healthy on-call system with the staffing, tooling, training, and management support required to sustain reliable services without normalizing burnout or heroics.
• Establish reliability practices for AI-enabled systems, including appropriate observability, evaluation, degradation, and fallback mechanisms for non-deterministic production behavior.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, or a closely related discipline, including significant experience leading engineering teams and managers.
• Demonstrated success leading an SRE, infrastructure, or production engineering organization accountable for a diverse portfolio of business-critical systems at meaningful scale.
• Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, organizational design, and development of managers and senior individual contributors.
• Deep technical fluency across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, networking, storage, observability, deployment systems, and the failure modes of each layer.
• Experience establishing SLOs, production-readiness standards, incident management systems, on-call practices, and operational maturity mechanisms across multiple engineering teams.
• Track record of improving reliability through systemic engineering investments and shared accountability with software engineering rather than relying on reactive support or manual controls.
• Demonstrated ability to assess operational and business risk, prioritize investments across competing needs, and lead effectively through complex production incidents.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior engineers, executive leadership, and cross-functional partners.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.