Anduril Industries

Site Reliability Engineer - Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike

Anduril Industries$146K — $194K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field
  • Advanced proficiency in programming languages, particularly Python
  • 3+ years experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and Jfrog Artifactory
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
  • 3+ years experience with cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools, especially Nominal and Grafana
  • Eligible for U.S. Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute cloud deployments across TRS product lines
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging platform services and third-party tools
  • Maintain and enhance data pipelines and observability infrastructure
  • Collaborate with field teams for operational testing and system feedback
  • Help establish integration engineering best practices across TRS product lines

Benefits

  • Comprehensive and competitive benefits package
  • Health and wellness support
  • Employee recovery and future planning support
  • Equity grants as part of total compensation
Full Job Description
About The Team

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from concepts to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers, hardware engineers, roboticists, and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces.
About The Job

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for deploying, integrating, and managing customer and developmental cloud environments across TRS. This role requires a systems-thinking engineer who can bridge software development, platform engineering, and mission operations to ensure seamless integration of new capabilities while improving production scalability and maintaining reliability. The ideal candidate will own the end-to-end lifecycle of cloud-based deployments, drive continuous improvement of data pipelines and observability infrastructure for TRS's growing drone fleets, and identify opportunities to leverage emerging platform services to enhance system performance and data quality. This position will also play a critical role in scaling integration best practices and building out functional capabilities across additional TRS product lines.

What You Will Do
Cloud Deployment & Environment Management: Own and execute customer and developmental cloud deployments across TRS product lines, ensuring reliable configuration management, version control, and seamless promotion of releases from development through production environments.
Anduril Platform Services Integration: Evaluate, prototype, and integrate emerging platform capabilities (such as RDF and MissionSim) and/or 3rd party services (such as Arena AI and AFATDS/AXS) to improve data discoverability, consistency, and analytical capabilities across TRS systems.
Data Pipeline & Observability Infrastructure: Maintain and enhance existing data pipelines, metrics frameworks, and monitoring solutions including Grafana and Nominal; ensure high availability, data quality, and actionable insights for engineering and operations teams.
Field Support & Operational Testing: Collaborate directly with field operation teams during feature rollouts to conduct real-world testing, troubleshoot issues in operational environments, gather actionable feedback to inform system improvements and ensure mission success, and enable customer self-serve provisioning of environments.
Cross-Product Line Expansion: Partner with leadership to establish integration engineering functions and best practices across all TRS product lines, developing reusable patterns, documentation, and tooling that accelerate deployment capabilities and operational maturity.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other STEM focused degree
  • Advanced proficiency in programming languages (Python for scripting and integration).
  • 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jfrog Artifactory, and Git.
  • Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible).
  • 3+ plus years of experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
  • Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Experience with logging and monitoring tools (Nominal and Grafana).
  • Understanding of parallel computing frameworks (CUDA, OpenCL).
  • Strong collaboration skills and proficiency with collaborative tools (JIRA, Confluence).
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Masters or other advanced STEM degree
  • Technical expertise and demonstrated performance in one or more of the following areas: networking, cloud technologies, application development, hardware design, and/or cybersecurity
  • Minimum of 5 years of operations and engineering experience


US Salary Range

$146,000-$194,000 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:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that develops advanced systems for the military. The company was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, and Matt Grimm, and has since grown to become a major player in the defense industry. Anduril's products include autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and other advanced technologies that are designed to enhance military capabilities. The company has received significant funding from investors and has partnerships with several major defense contractors. Anduril is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Learn more about Anduril Industries
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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