SRE for Autonomous Defense Systems | Equity & Impact

Telemetry Today LLC; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to develop tooling and infrastructure for a growing fleet of autonomous Sentry towers. You will improve reliability and uptime across harsh environments, diagnose issues remotely, and drive automation to prevent repeat incidents.

You will collaborate with customer support, field operations, software and hardware engineering, and quality teams to ensure robust operation and scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, 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, connectivity troubleshooting.
• 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 coordination with field technicians, engineers, and operations 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 reduce manual toil and rollout updates safely across the fleet.
• Plan and run staged software, firmware, and configuration rollouts.
• Review incident trends, identify recurring failure modes, and maintain runbooks.
• Provide feedback on system reliability to hardware and software teams.
• Participate in on-call or escalation rotations for operational events.

Skills

Linux systems

Networking

Observability tools

Python

Rust

Postmortems

Clear communication

Security clearance

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

NixOS

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to develop tooling and infrastructure for a growing fleet of autonomous Sentry towers. You will improve reliability and uptime across harsh environments, diagnose issues remotely, and drive automation to prevent repeat incidents.

You will collaborate with customer support, field operations, software and hardware engineering, and quality teams to ensure robust operation and scalable deployments.