Staff SRE: Platform Reliability Architect

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff SRE to define and scale the reliability architecture for its CorpTech Platform, impacting production across manufacturing and business operations. You will own observability, deployment safety, incident response, and SLO governance, guiding multiple engineering teams through platform-level decisions.

You will lead capacity planning, cost optimization, and AI-enabled reliability practices, partnering with senior engineers and leadership to drive durable

Qualifications

• 10+ years in site reliability engineering or production/infrastructure engineering with architecture-level scope.
• Experience owning reliability infrastructure used by multiple teams, including observability or deployment tooling.
• Fluency across distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust for production tooling and automation.
• Experience defining SRE standards and production-readiness frameworks.
• Track record leading incident response and turning findings into durable improvements.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguity and influence across teams without authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set reliability architecture for CorpTech Platform production environment, including observability, deployment, incident management, capacity planning, and fault isolation.
• Design and operate observability platform with metrics, tracing, logging, alerts, and dashboards for scale.
• Own deployment infrastructure and release-safety mechanisms including canaries, rollbacks, and gates for fast yet safe shipping.
• Define and govern SLOs, creating common language for trade-off decisions.
• Identify systemic risks and drive investments to eliminate whole failure classes.
• Establish production-readiness standards and embed reliability in the development lifecycle.
• Lead incident response for complex failures and drive durable improvements.
• Develop reliability patterns for AI-enabled systems including drift monitoring and graceful degradation.
• Provide technical direction to SRE and infrastructure engineers and align platform planning.
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance engineering for critical paths.

Skills

SRE leadership

Observability platforms

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Systems programming

Production readiness

Incident response

Communication

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff SRE to define and scale the reliability architecture for its CorpTech Platform, impacting production across manufacturing and business operations. You will own observability, deployment safety, incident response, and SLO governance, guiding multiple engineering teams through platform-level decisions.

You will lead capacity planning, cost optimization, and AI-enabled reliability practices, partnering with senior engineers and leadership to drive durable