Senior SRE: Edge Fleet Reliability & Automation

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries, Inc. in Irvine, CA, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability of the Counter Intrusion Sentry tower fleet. You’ll build monitoring, diagnose issues remotely, and automate tasks across hardware and software components.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply strong Linux and networking skills, and contribute to postmortems, runbooks, and scalable deployment playbooks. This role offers competitive benefits and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, systems engineering, or a similar role running production infrastructure.
• Strong Linux skills: systemd, journald/log analysis, SSH-based remote 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 the ability to coordinate with field technicians, engineers, and operations teams 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 debugging

Networking basics

Observability

Python/Rust automation

Incident response

Cross-functional

Security clearance eligible

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

NixOS

Job description

Anduril Industries, Inc. in Irvine, CA, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability of the Counter Intrusion Sentry tower fleet. You’ll build monitoring, diagnose issues remotely, and automate tasks across hardware and software components.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply strong Linux and networking skills, and contribute to postmortems, runbooks, and scalable deployment playbooks. This role offers competitive benefits and growth opportunities.