Site Reliability Engineer, Cyber

Anduril-1; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company pushing the boundaries of autonomy, AI, and secure hardware-software integration. The Site Reliability Engineer role in Anduril Cyber focuses on keeping deployed systems reliable, scalable, and deployable across air-gapped environments for national security missions.

You will collaborate with software developers, customers, and vendors to deliver offensive cyber products, owning the full deployment pipeline from CI/CD to production.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance is required.
• Based in the DC metro area to support on-site work 3–5 days/week.
• 4+ years in Sys Admin, Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineering.
• Deep Linux experience and Kubernetes expertise.
• Strong networking fundamentals and ability to debug in locked-down environments.
• Experience delivering systems on air-gapped and security-hardened networks.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash for automation; Go for reading/debugging service code.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for cross-functional work.

Responsibilities

• Own the health of deployed systems with minimal downtime.
• Automate deployment processes into air-gapped TS/SCI environments.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD and automated test infra for complex systems.
• Develop dashboards, TUIs, scripts, and tools to automate deployment and debugging.
• Drive engineering requirements from on-site observations and customer needs.
• Perform root cause analysis across software, firmware, and hardware.

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Go

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Networking

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Air-gapped environments

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

Anduril Cyber is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of capabilities to enable offensive cyber missions. Cyber is a new business line at Anduril, and relies upon our fleet of autonomous vehicles, Lattice operating system, mesh networks, and other hardware products to engage in cyber operations at the edge. We design and build novel solutions to deploy cyber capabilities in unconventional or difficult to reach environments. Cyber is a new and fast growing business line at Anduril with small teams, real deployments, and rapid timelines from customer request to fielded capability.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Site Reliability Engineer in Anduril Cyber, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, systems integration, distributed systems, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril’s software is reliable, scalable, and deployable, in order to achieve critical national security outcomes.You will work closely with software developers, customers, and external vendors to get working offensive Cyber products into the hands of customers. You will own the full deployment pipeline — from CI/CD and pre-production test environments, through canary deployments in customer-hosted integration environments, to production in air-gapped enclaves.

You will also be the steward of Anduril's mission and technological advantage in the room with customers — attending technical meetings, explaining why the system behaves the way it does, and absorbing requirements firsthand. What you observe on site is the primary input to our team's roadmap.Site Reliability Engineers must be driven by a "Whatever It Takes" mindset - executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound decisions to deliver successful outcomes on-time and with high quality.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the health of our deployed systems and keep them running with minimal downtime.
• Automate and improve our software deployment processes into air-gapped, TS/SCI environments.
• Design, build, and maintain the CI/CD and automated test infrastructure for Cyber’s complex hardware and software systems.
• Develop metrics dashboards, TUIs, scripts, and other tools that automate common deployment steps or help to debug our software stack.
• Drive engineering requirements based on onsite observations.
• Perform root cause analysis and diagnose issues in mission-critical systems across our software stack, the Lattice OS stack, and external vendor services.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external customers to identify technical solutions to their problems.
• Drive continuous improvement by instrumenting systems, analyzing failures, and leading post-mortem events that span software, firmware, and hardware.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.
• Based in the DC metro area to support 3-5 days per week working on site at customer facilities.
• 4+ years of experience in a Sys Admin, Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineering role.
• Deep, practical experience with Linux and Kubernetes (or a similar container orchestrator).
• Working knowledge of network fundamentals and the ability to debug connectivity in a locked-down environment.
• Experience delivering and maintaining systems on air-gapped and security-hardened networks.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Bash for automation and debugging, and the ability to read and debug service code in a compiled language such as Go.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with a cross-functional engineering team and external customers.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in debugging and resolving networking issues.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex, multi-disciplinary systems and established codebases.
• Experience building automation for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or software-in-the-loop (SIL) test environments.
• Ability to drive consensus across internal and external stakeholders.

US Salary Range

$146,000 - $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:

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