Director of Site Reliability Engineering & Platform Health

SilverShoots

Costa Mesa (CA)

On-site

USD 253,000 - 336,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to own the reliability system for its software supporting business and manufacturing operations. You will lead the SRE organization, partner with software leaders, and drive availability, resilience, performance, and production readiness across a portfolio of critical systems.

The role requires deep technical judgment, strong leadership, and the ability to set standards, build shared capabilities, and empower teams to own

Qualifications

12+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or related fields.
Proven success leading SRE/infrastructure teams for business-critical systems.
Strong leadership in hiring, coaching, and organizational design.
Deep fluency across distributed systems, cloud, containers, networking, and observability.
Experience establishing SLOs, production-readiness standards, incident management, and on-call practices.
Proven ability to drive reliability through engineering investments and shared accountability.
Ability to assess risk, prioritize investments, and lead through incidents.
Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.
U.S. Person status for export-controlled data access.

Responsibilities

Build and lead the Site Reliability Engineering organization with coaching and leadership development.
Own reliability strategy for CorpTech Platform's production portfolio and translate risk into a roadmap.
Establish clear service ownership, SLOs, readiness standards, on-call expectations, and escalation processes.
Set direction for observability, deployment safety, incident management, capacity planning, resilience, and disaster recovery.
Partner with engineering, product, security, and operations to balance speed, cost, and health.
Lead incident response and post-incident improvements across teams.
Reduce toil by turning cross-system failures into platform capabilities and clearer ownership.
Define reliability metrics and operating reviews to expose systemic risk.
Create a healthy on-call system with staffing and tooling support.
Establish reliability practices for AI-enabled systems with safe fallback.