Founding SRE for Military Simulation Infra in Abu Dhabi

mouhamedzz; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) is seeking a founding Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate the infrastructure for massive-scale autonomous simulation environments.

You will own the simulation stack, ensure reliability across distributed systems, and collaborate with hardware, software, and defense teams. Relocation to Abu Dhabi may be required.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, and test development.
• Working knowledge of C++; read, debug, build, and trace issues in the simulation codebase.
• Solid general networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, DNS, routing, firewalls, and the ability to diagnose latency, packet loss, and connectivity problems across distributed systems.
• Experience with project management, issue tracking, bug triage, and coordinating work across engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining production or production-adjacent systems, including troubleshooting under time pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication; you can elevate an issue, explain a root cause, and write a runbook someone else can follow.
• Eligibility to pass the security and background check requirements for sensitive information systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the simulation software stack - installation, configuration, updates, version management, and day-to-day functionality across the Simulation Centers tools and environments.
• Own the underlying infrastructure - compute, networking, storage, and environment configuration that the simulation depends on; keep it provisioned, patched, and performant.
• Build and maintain a post-release test suite - design, automate, and continually extend a regression and smoke‑test process that runs after every software release or configuration change, so integration issues surface immediately rather than mid‑exercise.
• Forecast, diagnose, and eliminate failure modes - root‑cause errors and bugs in the system, drive them to permanent resolution, and implement guardrails, monitoring, or process changes that prevent recurrence.
• Partner with development teams and stakeholders - review upcoming changes for reliability risk, surface concerns early, and implement mitigation strategies before releases land in the simulation environment.
• Monitor overall system health - instrument and watch the environment, triage issues within your scope, and elevate clearly and quickly with the context needed for others to act when an issue exceeds your ability to resolve it.
• Document what you learn - runbooks, known issues, environment configuration, and release validation results, so the Simulation Centers operational knowledge isnt held in one persons head.

Skills

Python

C++

Networking fundamentals

Project management

Bug triage

Communication skills

Security clearance eligibility

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Anduril Industries in the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) is seeking a founding Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate the infrastructure for massive-scale autonomous simulation environments.

You will own the simulation stack, ensure reliability across distributed systems, and collaborate with hardware, software, and defense teams. Relocation to Abu Dhabi may be required.