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Director, Site Reliability Engineering

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-13)💼 Full-time💰 $253,000–$253,000🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering organization to own reliability strategy, reduce failure frequency/impact, and ensure production readiness for Anduril's business and manufacturing operations.

Role type

Director, Site Reliability Engineering

Builds

CorpTech Platform (internal engineering force multiplier for corporate systems, Finance, Growth, and hardware enterprise)

Domain

Defense technology / Enterprise infrastructure / Manufacturing operations

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Organizational leadership, distributed systems architecture, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, networking, storage, observability, incident management, SLO definition, capacity planning, disaster recovery, risk assessment, strategic planning

Preferred skills

Scaling SRE in hyper-growth environments, federated engineering models, AI-enabled production systems, enterprise systems (ERP, MES, WMS, CRM)

Technologies

Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Jenkins, Python, Go

Responsibilities

Build and lead the SRE organization (hiring, coaching, succession planning), set portfolio-wide reliability strategy and roadmap, establish shared accountability and service ownership with software engineering, define observability and incident management practices, lead response to critical incidents, reduce operational toil through automation and architectural changes, create healthy on-call systems, establish reliability practices for AI-enabled systems.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership & hands-on IC

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