Director, Site Reliability & Platform Resilience

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Health insurance

Job summary

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

The role requires deep technical judgment and strong leadership to set standards, build capabilities, and enable teams to own solutions with durable, scalable architecture. U.S.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in site reliability or related fields with leadership experience.
• Proven track record leading SRE/infrastructure orgs at scale.
• Strong people leadership in hiring, coaching, and design.
• Deep fluency in distributed systems, cloud, networking, and observability.
• Experience defining SLOs, production-readiness, and incident processes.
• History of improving reliability through engineering and shared accountability.
• Ability to assess risk and guide investments across teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.
• Degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. Person status required for export-controlled data access.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the SRE organization, including hiring and leadership development.
• Own the reliability strategy for CorpTech Platform's production portfolio.
• Define service ownership, SLOs, and on-call expectations across teams.
• Set direction for observability, deployment safety, incident management, and DR.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, security, and operations on trade-offs.
• Lead incident response and drive durable post-incident improvements.
• Reduce toil by turning failure patterns into platform capabilities.
• Define reliability metrics and operating reviews to expose systemic risk.
• Create a healthy on-call program with staffing and tooling support.
• Define reliability practices for AI-enabled systems and non-deterministic behavior.

Skills

Leadership

SRE

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Incident management

SLOs

Communication

People management

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Prometheus

Linux

Job description

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

The role requires deep technical judgment and strong leadership to set standards, build capabilities, and enable teams to own solutions with durable, scalable architecture. U.S.