Senior Director, Site Reliability & Observability

Anduril-1

Costa Mesa (CA)

On-site

USD 253,000 - 336,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company in Costa Mesa, seeks a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to own the reliability of software running our business and manufacturing operations. You will lead the SRE org, set portfolio-wide reliability strategy, and drive durable improvements through architecture and disciplined operating mechanisms.

The role combines deep technical judgment with organizational leadership, balancing delivery speed, cost, and long-term platform health across

Qualifications

Extensive leadership experience directing SRE or production engineering teams.
Proven ability to design and implement reliability strategies and roadmaps.
Strong cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, security, and operations.
Experience with SLOs, incident management, on-call strategies, and post-incident reviews.
Experience with AI-enabled systems reliability is a plus.

Responsibilities

Build and lead the SRE organization with hiring and coaching.
Own reliability strategy for production portfolio and roadmap.
Define service ownership, SLOs, and on-call standards.
Set observability, deployment safety, incident management, and disaster recovery.
Partner with leaders to balance speed, cost, and reliability.
Lead incident response and durable post-incident improvements.
Reduce toil by turning failure patterns into platform capabilities.
Define reliability metrics and operating reviews.
Create healthy on-call systems and training.
Establish reliability practices for AI-enabled systems.