Staff DevOps Engineer

Anduril-1; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff SRE to define and own the reliability architecture for its CorpTech Platform, spanning production systems used across business and manufacturing operations.

You will lead observability, deployment safety, incident response, and reliability investments, partnering with software engineers to raise production readiness and scale with the platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of site reliability engineering or related discipline.
• Experience designing reliability infrastructure used by multiple teams.
• Fluency in distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, networking, storage.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or equivalent for production tooling.
• Experience defining SRE standards and adoption across teams.
• Track record leading incident response and turning findings into investments.

Responsibilities

• Set the reliability architecture for CorpTech Platform’s production environment, including observability, deployment, incident management, capacity planning.
• Design and operate the observability platform with metrics, tracing, logging, alerts, and dashboards.
• Own deployment infrastructure and release-safety mechanisms, including progressive rollout and canary analysis.
• Define and govern SLO frameworks for reliability, aligning teams and leadership.
• Identify systemic reliability risks and drive investments to eliminate failure classes.
• Establish production-readiness standards and review processes in design and pre-launch.
• Lead incident response for complex multi-system failures and drive durable improvements.
• Develop reliability patterns for AI-enabled systems and model behavior monitoring.
• Provide technical direction to SRE and infrastructure engineers and influence platform decisions.
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance engineering.

Skills

10+ years in SRE/production

Distributed systems expertise

Incident response leadership

SRE standards & maturity

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Go

Python

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:

CorpTech Platform is the internal engineering force multiplier behind Anduril’s corporate systems. It drives CorpTech engineering forward through strategic investment in data platforms, software platforms, QA and release excellence, ERP engineering, and AI infrastructure.

We build the foundations that power both CorpOS, enabling Finance and Growth to operate with speed and precision, and ArsenalOS, the digital backbone of Anduril’s hardware enterprise. By unifying systems, accelerating development velocity, and embedding intelligence into every layer, CorpTech Platform transforms how the company operates end to end.

We are also driving Anduril toward becoming an autonomous enterprise. Through initiatives like the Autonomous Software Factory, we are rethinking how software is built, tested, deployed, and evolved by integrating AI directly into the engineering lifecycle. CorpTech Platform is how Anduril scales its business systems with the same rigor, speed, and adaptability as its mission critical products.

ABOUT THE JOB:

This Staff SRE role sets the reliability architecture for the systems that run Anduril’s business and manufacturing operations. You are not responding to tickets. You are the person who decides how production works: how services are observed, how deployments are safe, how incidents are managed, and how reliability scales as the platform grows. You own the infrastructure and mechanisms that make reliability a property of the platform rather than a function of individual heroics.

The role carries broad organizational reach. You will influence how software engineering teams across CorpTech Platform build and operate their systems, set the standards that govern production readiness, and make infrastructure decisions that affect every service in the portfolio. You bring both deep systems expertise and the judgment to know which reliability investments matter most at each stage of the platform’s growth.

WHAT YOU\"LL DO:

• Set the reliability architecture for CorpTech Platform’s production environment, including observability infrastructure, deployment systems, incident management, capacity planning, and failure-domain isolation.
• Design and operate the observability platform, including metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and dashboarding infrastructure that gives engineering teams real production visibility at scale.
• Own deployment infrastructure and release-safety mechanisms, including progressive rollout systems, canary analysis, automated rollback, and deployment gates that let the organization ship fast without gambling on production stability.
• Define and govern SLO frameworks that make reliability measurable and actionable, creating shared language between SRE, product engineering, and leadership for making trade‑off decisions.
• Identify systemic reliability risks across the platform and drive infrastructure or automation investments that eliminate entire failure classes rather than patching individual symptoms.
• Establish production‑readiness standards and review processes that engineering teams adopt during design and pre‑launch, embedding reliability into the development lifecycle rather than bolting it on after release.
• Lead incident response for complex, multi‑system failures and drive post‑incident processes that produce durable systemic improvements rather than shallow fixes.
• Develop reliability patterns for AI‑enabled systems, including monitoring for model behavior drift, non‑deterministic output degradation, and graceful fallback under novel failure modes.
• Provide technical direction to SRE and infrastructure engineers, facilitate cross‑team architecture decisions, and represent reliability concerns in platform‑level planning and prioritization.
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance engineering for the platform’s critical paths and shared infrastructure.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related discipline, including experience operating at architecture or platform‑wide scope.
• Demonstrated experience designing and owning reliability infrastructure that multiple engineering teams depend on, including observability platforms, deployment systems, or incident management tooling at meaningful scale.
• Deep technical fluency across distributed systems, container orchestration (Kubernetes), cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), networking, storage, and the failure modes specific to each layer.
• Proficiency in systems programming languages (Go, Python, Rust, or equivalent) used for building production infrastructure, tooling, and automation.
• Demonstrated experience defining SRE standards, production‑readiness frameworks, or operational maturity models and influencing adoption across engineering teams without formal authority.
• Track record of leading incident response for complex, multi‑system failures and converting post‑incident findings into infrastructure investments that prevent recurrence.