Senior Director, Site Reliability & Observability

Anduril-1; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 253,000 - 336,000; Full time

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.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Cloud platforms

Observability tools

Job description

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