Edge Systems SRE for Autonomous Sentry Towers

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and maintain tooling and infrastructure for a fleet of autonomous Sentry towers. You will monitor, diagnose, and automate to improve reliability in harsh remote environments, collaborating with software, hardware, and field operations.

You should have strong Linux, networking, and observability skills, experience with incident response, and the ability to work across hardware and software boundaries, with

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, systems engineering, or a similar role running production infrastructure.
• Strong Linux skills including systemd, journald/log analysis, SSH-based debugging, and shell scripting.
• Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, VLANs, DHCP/ARP, firewalls, and troubleshooting connectivity issues.
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Proficiency in Python, Rust, or a similar language for automation and tooling.
• Experience with incident response, root cause analysis, and writing clear postmortems and runbooks.
• Comfort working across hardware and software boundaries.
• Strong communication and coordination with field technicians, engineers, and operations under time pressure.
• Eligible to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build systems to monitor Sentry tower fleet health (dashboards, alerts, telemetry).
• Remotely diagnose issues across the stack: compute, software services, firmware, sensors and cameras, power controllers, and connectivity.
• Run root-cause analysis on incidents.
• Develop automations to cut manual toil, e.g. tooling to roll out config and software updates safely across the fleet.
• Plan and run staged software, firmware, and configuration rollouts.
• Review incident trends, find recurring failure modes and process gaps, and write or maintain runbooks and troubleshooting guides.
• Give hardware and software teams feedback on system and subcomponent reliability.
• Take part in on-call or escalation rotations for operational events.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Linux

Networking

Observability

Python/Rust

Incident response

Cross-functional coordination

Security clearance

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and maintain tooling and infrastructure for a fleet of autonomous Sentry towers. You will monitor, diagnose, and automate to improve reliability in harsh remote environments, collaborating with software, hardware, and field operations.

You should have strong Linux, networking, and observability skills, experience with incident response, and the ability to work across hardware and software boundaries, with