Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Devices

LinuxCareers; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building AI-powered military systems. This Site Reliability Engineer role focuses on managing the reliability and uptime of a growing fleet of autonomous Sentry towers deployed in harsh, remote locations, working across compute, software, firmware, sensors, and connectivity infrastructure.

You will build monitoring systems, diagnose issues across the full stack, perform root-cause analysis, and deploy software and firmware.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or similar production infra roles.
• Strong Linux skills: systemd, journald, SSH debugging, shell scripting.
• Solid TCP/IP networking and connectivity troubleshooting knowledge.
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Python or Rust for automation and tooling.
• Experience with incident response and postmortems.
• Eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build monitoring systems for fleet health with dashboards and alerts.
• Remotely diagnose issues across compute, software, firmware, sensors, and connectivity.
• Perform root-cause analysis and develop automations to reduce toil.
• Plan and execute staged software, firmware, and configuration deployments.
• Review incident trends and maintain runbooks and guides.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide reliability feedback.

Skills

SRE experience

Linux skills

Networking knowledge

Observability tools

Python/Rust

Incident response

Security clearance

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building AI-powered military systems. This Site Reliability Engineer role focuses on managing the reliability and uptime of a growing fleet of autonomous Sentry towers deployed in harsh, remote locations, working across compute, software, firmware, sensors, and connectivity infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Build monitoring systems for Sentry tower fleet health including dashboards, alerts, and telemetry collection
• Remotely diagnose issues across the full stack: compute, software services, firmware, sensors, cameras, power controllers, and connectivity
• Perform root-cause analysis on incidents and develop automations to reduce manual toil such as configuration and software update rollouts
• Plan and execute staged software, firmware, and configuration deployments across the fleet
• Review incident trends to identify recurring failure modes and process gaps, writing and maintaining runbooks and troubleshooting guides
• Participate in on-call and escalation rotations for operational events and provide reliability feedback to hardware and software teams

What You Need

• 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, systems engineering, or similar production infrastructure roles
• Strong Linux skills including systemd, journald/log analysis, SSH-based remote debugging, and shell scripting
• Solid networking knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, DHCP/ARP, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms
• 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
• Eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to Have

• Experience managing fleets of embedded or edge devices such as IoT, robotics, telecom, or defense systems
• Experience with embedded compute platforms
• Familiarity with NixOS
• Knowledge of sensor systems including cameras, radar, GPS/GNSS and power systems such as solar, batteries, generators, and power controllers
• Experience with RF and mesh radios, Starlink, or LTE backhaul
• Prior experience in defense, aerospace, or border and critical infrastructure security

Base salary $147,000–$196,000 USD. Highly competitive equity grants included in majority of full-time offers. Top-tier benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.