Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike
About The Team
The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from concepts to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers.
About The Job
As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for deploying, integrating, and managing customer and developmental cloud environments across TRS. This role requires a systems-thinking engineer who can bridge software development, platform engineering, and mission operations to ensure seamless integration of new capabilities while improving production scalability and maintaining reliability.
- Cloud Deployment & Environment Management: Own and execute customer and developmental cloud deployments across TRS product lines, ensuring reliable configuration management, version control, and seamless promotion of releases from development through production environments.
- Anduril Platform Services Integration: Evaluate, prototype, and integrate emerging platform capabilities (such as RDF and MissionSim) and/or 3rd party services (such as Arena AI and AFATDS/AXS) to improve data discoverability, consistency, and analytical capabilities across TRS systems.
- Data Pipeline & Observability Infrastructure: Maintain and enhance existing data pipelines, metrics frameworks, and monitoring solutions including Grafana and Nominal; ensure high availability, data quality, and actionable insights for engineering and operations teams.
- Field Support & Operational Testing: Collaborate directly with field operation teams during feature rollouts to conduct real-world testing, troubleshoot issues in operational environments, gather actionable feedback to inform system improvements and ensure mission success, and enable customer self-serve provisioning of environments.
- Cross-Product Line Expansion: Partner with leadership to establish integration engineering functions and best practices across all TRS product lines, developing reusable patterns, documentation, and tooling that accelerate deployment capabilities and operational maturity.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other STEM focused degree
- Advanced proficiency in programming languages (Python for scripting and integration)
- 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jfrog Artifactory, and Git
- Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible)
- 5+ plus years of experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Experience with logging and monitoring tools (Nominal and Grafana)
- Understanding of parallel computing frameworks (CUDA, OpenCL)
- Strong collaboration skills and proficiency with collaborative tools (JIRA, Confluence)
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters or other advanced STEM degree
- Technical expertise and demonstrated performance in one or more of the following areas: networking, cloud technologies, application development, hardware design, and/or cybersecurity
- Minimum of 7 years of operations and engineering experience
What You Will Do
Cloud Deployment & Environment Management: Own and execute customer and developmental cloud deployments across TRS product lines, ensuring reliable configuration management, version control, and seamless promotion of releases from development through production environments.
Anduril Platform Services Integration: Evaluate, prototype, and integrate emerging platform capabilities (such as RDF and MissionSim) and/or 3rd party services (such as Arena AI and AFATDS/AXS) to improve data discoverability, consistency, and analytical capabilities across TRS systems.
Data Pipeline & Observability Infrastructure: Maintain and enhance existing data pipelines, metrics frameworks, and monitoring solutions including Grafana and Nominal; ensure high availability, data quality, and actionable insights for engineering and operations teams.
Field Support & Operational Testing: Collaborate directly with field operation teams during feature rollouts to conduct real-world testing, troubleshoot issues in operational environments, gather actionable feedback to inform system improvements and ensure mission success, and enable customer self-serve provisioning of environments.
Cross-Product Line Expansion: Partner with leadership to establish integration engineering functions and best practices across all TRS product lines, developing reusable patterns, documentation, and tooling that accelerate deployment capabilities and operational maturity.
Benefits
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
- Health, recovery, and whatever comes next support
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