Director, Site Reliability Engineering

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 253,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to own the reliability of software supporting business and manufacturing operations. You will lead the SRE organization and partner with software leaders to improve availability, resilience, performance and production readiness.

The role requires deep technical judgment, strong leadership, and the ability to set standards, drive shared capabilities, and enable teams to own solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in site reliability engineering, production engineering or related field.
• Experience leading engineering organizations accountable for diverse portfolio of systems.
• Strong people leadership: hiring, coaching and design of managers.
• Deep fluency across distributed systems, cloud, containers, networking and observability.
• Experience establishing SLOs, incident management and on-call practices across teams.
• Proven ability to drive reliability improvements through systemic investments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.
• U.S. Person status is required for export controlled data.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the SRE organization, including coaching and career development for managers and senior engineers.
• Own reliability strategy for CorpTech Platform's production portfolio and translate risk into a roadmap.
• Set accountability with clear service ownership, SLOs and on-call standards.
• Define observability, deployment safety, incident mgmt, capacity planning and disaster recovery.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, security and operations to balance speed, cost and platform health.
• Lead incident response, ensure effective communication and post-incident improvements.
• Reduce toil by turning failure patterns into platform capabilities and clear ownership.
• Define reliability metrics and operating reviews to expose systemic risk.
• Create healthy on-call staffing and autonomous AI-enabled reliability practices.

Skills

Leadership

SRE / Production Engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Container orchestration

Observability

SLOs / Production readiness

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field

Job description

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.

About The Team

CorpTech Platform is the internal engineering force multiplier behind Anduril's corporate systems.

It drives CorpTech engineering forward through strategic investment in data platforms, software platforms, QA and release excellence, ERP engineering and AI infrastructure.

We build the foundations that power both CorpOS, enabling Finance and Growth to operate with speed and precision, and ArsenalOS, the digital backbone of Anduril's hardware enterprise. By unifying systems, accelerating development velocity, and embedding intelligence into every layer, CorpTech Platform transforms how the company operates end to end.

We are also driving Anduril toward becoming an autonomous enterprise. Through initiatives like the Autonomous Software Factory, we are rethinking how software is built, tested, deployed and evolved by integrating AI directly into the engineering lifecycle. CorpTech Platform is how Anduril scales its business systems with the same rigor, speed and adaptability as its mission critical products.

About The Job

The Director of Site Reliability Engineering owns the reliability system for the software that runs Anduril's business and manufacturing operations. This role leads the SRE organization and partners with software engineering leaders to make availability, resilience, performance and production readiness shared engineering outcomes. The mandate extends beyond responding well when systems fail: it is to reduce the frequency and impact of failure through sound architecture, durable infrastructure, clear service ownership and disciplined operating mechanisms.

You will set the portfolio-wide reliability strategy, build the team and leadership structure required to execute it, and give senior leaders a clear view of operational risk and investment choices. The strongest candidate will combine deep technical judgment with organizational leadership and will know when to establish a common standard, when to build a shared capability and when to enable an engineering team to own the solution directly.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading reliability for enterprise, manufacturing or other operationally critical systems with complex dependencies and varied service maturity.
• Experience building or scaling an SRE organization in a hyper growth environment while improving both service health and engineering velocity.
• Experience operating in a federated engineering model in which reliability standards and shared capabilities must influence teams outside the direct reporting line.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled production systems, including observability, evaluation, safeguards and graceful degradation for non-deterministic behavior.
• Experience with enterprise systems and business process domains such as ERP, MES, WMS, CRM, finance systems or manufacturing systems.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

US Salary Range

$253,000—$336,000 USD

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:

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery and whatever comes next.

For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

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