Product Operations Engineer - Counter Intrusion

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity incentives

Excellent benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Product Operations Engineer for its Counter‑Intrusion team. You will design and maintain uptime dashboards, own deployment lifecycles, and build monitoring solutions for new towers while refining existing observability.

The role emphasizes tooling, automation, and clear documentation to support scalable operations. You will work with cross‑functional teams to reduce alert noise, analyze fleet telemetry, and drive data‑driven improvements in deployment and incident

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical operations or engineering with production systems.
• Experience in product operations or site reliability for deployed hardware/software.
• Proficient with monitoring queries, dashboards, alerts (Datadog, Grafana).
• Experience planning and executing deployments to distributed systems.
• Scripting and automation (Python, Bash) for tooling.
• Git and Jira experience in software environments.
• Clear technical documentation (runbooks, SOPs).
• Independent worker with initiative.
• Strong written, visual, and verbal communication.
• Active U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain uptime dashboards across deployed fleet.
• Own end-to-end software deployment lifecycle to towers.
• Develop monitoring solutions for new tower deployments from day one.
• Improve monitoring configurations and reduce alert noise.
• Author and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
• Improve fleet observability and telemetry through standards.
• Analyze fleet data to identify reliability trends.
• Define deployment workflows and incident response procedures.
• Develop automation to reduce manual operational overhead.

Skills

Observability tooling

Python scripting

Git / Jira

Production deployments

Runbooks & SOPs

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

PromQL/LogQL

Linux

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

The Counter‑Intrusion Business Line works on products that enable operators to protect their people and assets from threats on land and sea. We are deployed in every major global operating theater and support a diversity of mission sets across both U\.S\. Government and allied partners.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Product Operations Engineer on the Counter‑Intrusion product operations team, you will be the architect behind how we observe, maintain, and evolve our deployed fleet. Where others respond to incidents, you build the systems, queries, and processes that prevent them. You will design and develop uptime reporting, plan and execute software deployments to towers, create and refine monitoring solutions for both new and legacy products, and author the runbooks and SOPs that the broader team relies on daily.

You will own the operational tooling, reporting infrastructure, and deployment processes that keep our Counter‑Intrusion technology healthy at scale. You should bring strong technical depth in observability and systems thinking, paired with the judgment to prioritize what to build next based on fleet data and operational patterns. If you are passionate about ground‑breaking technology, contributing to the national security mission, and engineering operational excellence from the ground up, Anduril is interested in speaking with you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design, develop, and maintain queries and dashboards for uptime reporting across the Counter‑Intrusion deployed fleet, translating raw telemetry into actionable fleet health metrics
• Serve as the product operations planner and executor for software changes deployed to towers, owning the end‑to‑end lifecycle from change validation through rollout and post‑deployment verification
• Work with tower software engineering to develop and tailor monitoring solutions for new tower deployments, ensuring observability is built in from day one rather than bolted on after the fact
• Improve and optimize monitoring configurations for legacy products, identifying gaps in coverage and reducing alert noise to surface genuine issues
• Continuously author, update, and refine runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides, ensuring operational knowledge is codified, accurate, and accessible to the team
• Assess and ratchet up the quality of the fleet’s observability and telemetry in partnership with product and engineering teams, driving standards for what good monitoring looks like
• Analyze fleet‑wide operational data to identify systemic reliability trends, proactively surfacing issues before they become incidents
• Define and implement process improvements for deployment workflows, incident response procedures, and operational tooling based on data‑driven insights
• Develop and maintain automation to reduce manual operational overhead across the fleet

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in a technical operations or engineering role with hands‑on responsibility for production systems
• Prior experience in a product operations, technical support, or site reliability role supporting deployed hardware/software systems, with demonstrated progression in scope and ownership
• Proficiency in developing monitoring queries, dashboards, and alerting configurations using observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, or similar tooling
• Experience planning and executing software deployments to distributed systems, including rollout strategy, validation, and rollback procedures
• Scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash) with a track record of building tooling that improves operational efficiency
• Experience with software development tooling such as Git, and issue tracking tools such as Jira
• Demonstrated ability to author clear, thorough technical documentation including runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides
• Proven ability to work independently, identify what needs to be built, and deliver it without close direction
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills
• Active U\.S\. security clearance required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior military or government agency exposure/experience
• Experience building queries and dashboards in Datadog, Grafana (PromQL/LogQL), or equivalent observability platforms.
• Experience with Linux system administration and command‑line troubleshooting of electromechanical or networked systems
• Experience supporting autonomous sensor tower systems or similar deployed C‑UAS/counter‑intrusion technology
• Exposure to Anduril’s Lattice OS or similar command‑and‑control software platforms
• Experience operating in limited risk tolerance production environments with on‑call responsibilities
• Willingness to work non‑standard hours and weekends when operational needs require

US Salary Range

$101,000—$135,000 USD

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:

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