Site Reliability Engineer - Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike
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<div class="content-intro"><p>Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.</p></div><h4>About The Team</h4> <p>Anduril’s Tactical Recon & Strike (TRS) is a division with two missions: 1) build highly capable autonomous drones, and 2) build solid rocket motors at scale. We transform products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius from early concepts into fully operational capabilities by partnering closely with specialist engineering, operations, and production teams. Through our Anduril Rocket Motor Systems (RMS) team, we design and manufacture solid rocket motors using advanced materials, proprietary formulations, and high-volume production methods—delivering safe, reliable propulsion systems that support a wide range of mission requirements. TRS hires software engineers & hardware engineers, who are excited to build across a diverse and powerful portfolio—from autonomous aerial systems to high-performance solid rocket motors. Our teams contribute to highly capable autonomous robotics systems and propulsion products that operate reliably in the most demanding mission environment.</p> <h4>About The Job</h4> <p>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. The ideal candidate will own the end-to-end lifecycle of cloud-based deployments, drive continuous improvement of data pipelines and observability infrastructure for TRS’s growing drone fleets, and identify opportunities to leverage emerging platform services to enhance system performance and data quality. This position will also play a critical role in scaling integration best practices and building out functional capabilities across additional TRS product lines. <br><br></p> <h4>What You Will Do</h4> <p>• <strong>Cloud Deployment & Environment Management</strong>: 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.<br>• <strong>Anduril Platform Services Integration</strong>: 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.<br>• <strong>Data Pipeline & Observability Infrastructure</strong>: 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.<br>• <strong>Field Support & Operational Testing</strong>: 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.<br>• <strong>Cross-Product Line Expansion</strong>: 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.</p> <h4>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS</h4> <ul> <li>Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other STEM focused degree</li> <li>Advanced proficiency in programming languages (Python for scripting and integration).</li> <li>3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jfrog Artifactory, and Git.</li> <li>Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible).</li> <li>3+ plus years of experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).</li> <li>Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).</li> <li>Experience with logging and monitoring tools (Nominal and Grafana).</li> <li>Understanding of parallel computing frameworks (CUDA, OpenCL).</li> <li>Strong collaboration skills and proficiency with collaborative tools (JIRA, Confluence).</li> <li>Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.</li> </ul> <p><br>Preferred Qualifications</p> <ul> <li>Masters or other advanced STEM degree</li> <li>Technical expertise and demonstrated performance in one or more of the following areas: networking, cloud technologies, application development, hardware design, and/or cybersecurity</li> <li>Minimum of 5 years of operations and engineering experience</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">US Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$126,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$167,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span data-contrast="auto">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:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Healthcare Benefits </span></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><span data-contrast="none">US Roles:</span></strong><span data-contrast="none"> Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}"> </span></li> <li><strong><span data-contrast="none">UK & AUS Roles:</span></strong><span data-contrast="none"> We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}"> </span></li> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">IE Roles:</span></strong> <span data-contrast="none">We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}"> </span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Additional Benefits</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}"> </span></p> <ul> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Income Protection</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}"> </span></li> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Generous time off</span></strong><span data-contras
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