Senior Production Engineer

Anduril-1; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Production Engineer to join the SRE team in Costa Mesa, CA (or DC). You will diagnose and fix stability issues in core platform services, implement resilience patterns in service code, and design multi-replica support for services that currently assume single-instance operation.

You will collaborate with service owners on testing, upgrades, and root-cause analysis, tracing cascading failures across boundaries, and contributing to observability improvements.

Qualifications

• Production-quality Go development on core platform services.
• Hands-on distributed systems experience, including leader election and replication.
• Understanding of Kubernetes concepts and service runtimes.
• Experience debugging complex, multi-service failures.
• 4+ years in SRE, platform, or backend roles.
• U.S. Person with eligibility for U.S. export controlled information.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and fix stability vulnerabilities in core platform services that cause cascading failures under multi-replica, multi-tenant operation
• Implement resilience patterns (leader election, circuit breakers, failure domain isolation) directly in service code
• Design multi-replica support for services that currently assume single-instance operation
• Collaborate with service owners on contract testing and upgrade validation
• Trace cascading failures across service boundaries and drive them to root-cause fixes
• Contribute to observability platform improvements to support service stability
• Light infrastructure work: Terraform/Kubernetes changes to support service fixes (~20% of time)

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Debugging

SRE/Backend

US Person

Security clearance

Tools

Terraform

gRPC

Consul

ArgoCD

Job description

Costa Mesa, California, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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 SRE team owns reliability and infrastructure for Anduril's cloud deployments. We operate Kubernetes clusters, Terraform infrastructure, and observability platforms across 10+ production environments supporting active defense contracts. When platform services break under real operational load, we're the team that fixes them — often at the code level, not just the config level.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Senior Production Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa, CA (or DC). In this role, you will be responsible for diagnosing and fixing stability vulnerabilities in core platform services that cause cascading failures in multi-tenant cloud deployments. You will write production Go to implement resilience patterns — leader election, circuit breakers, failure domain isolation — directly in service code. This will require deep experience with distributed systems, debugging complex failure modes across service boundaries, and writing production-quality Go. If you are someone who thrives on fixing hard reliability problems in live systems rather than building greenfield, this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Diagnose and fix stability vulnerabilities in core platform services that cause cascading failures under multi-replica, multi-tenant operation
• Implement resilience patterns (leader election, circuit breakers, failure domain isolation) directly in service code
• Design multi-replica support for services that currently assume single-instance operation
• Collaborate with service owners on contract testing and upgrade validation
• Trace cascading failures across service boundaries and drive them to root-cause fixes
• Contribute to observability platform improvements to support service stability
• Light infrastructure work: Terraform/Kubernetes changes to support service fixes (~20% of time)

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Production-quality Go — you\'ll be modifying core platform services, not writing scripts
• Practical experience with distributed systems: leader election, consensus, replication, failure modes
• Kubernetes — enough to understand how services run (not necessarily cluster administration)
• Debugging complex systems — tracing cascading failures across service boundaries
• 4+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or backend development roles
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

NICE-TO-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS

• Rust (some platform services use it)
• Experience fixing reliability problems in production services (not just building greenfield)
• Familiarity with gRPC service architectures
• HashiCorp Consul or similar service discovery/mesh
• ArgoCD / GitOps workflows

US Salary Range

$166,000 - $220,000 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:

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .

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