Senior Production Engineer
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, CA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Production
- Experience asked
- 4+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
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A senior production role at Anduril Industries (aerospace & defense) in Costa Mesa, CA. , you will be responsible for diagnosing and fixing stability vulnerabilities in core platform services that cause cascading failures in multi-tenant cloud deployments.
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- 4+ years
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- Root cause, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
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What you'll do
- ◆Diagnose and fix stability vulnerabilities in core platform services that cause cascading failures under multi-replica, multi-tenant operation
- ◆Implement resilience patterns (leader election, circuit breakers, failure domain isolation) directly in service code
- ◆Design multi-replica support for services that currently assume single-instance operation
- ◆Collaborate with service owners on contract testing and upgrade validation
- ◆Trace cascading failures across service boundaries and drive them to root-cause fixes
- ◆Contribute to observability platform improvements to support service stability
- ◆Light infrastructure work: Terraform/Kubernetes changes to support service fixes (~20% of time)
Required qualifications
- ✓Production-quality Go — you'll be modifying core platform services, not writing scripts
- ✓Practical experience with distributed systems: leader election, consensus, replication, failure modes
- ✓Kubernetes — enough to understand how services run (not necessarily cluster administration)
- ✓Debugging complex systems — tracing cascading failures across service boundaries
- ✓4+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or backend development roles
- ✓Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
- ✓Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Qualifications
- ✓Rust (some platform services use it)
- ✓Experience fixing reliability problems in production services (not just building greenfield)
- ✓Familiarity with gRPC service architectures
- ✓HashiCorp Consul or similar service discovery/mesh
- ✓FedRAMP/IL5 compliance environment experience
- ✓ArgoCD / GitOps workflows
$166,000 — $220,000 USD
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 .
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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
The SRE team owns reliability and infrastructure for Anduril's cloud deployments. We operate Kubernetes clusters, Terraform infrastructure, and observability platforms across 10+ production environments supporting active defense contracts. When platform services break under real operational load, we're the team that fixes them — often at the code level, not just the config level.
About the job
We are looking for a Senior Production Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa, CA (or DC) . In this role, you will be responsible for diagnosing and fixing stability vulnerabilities in core platform services that cause cascading failures in multi-tenant cloud deployments. You will write production Go to implement resilience patterns — leader election, circuit breakers, failure domain isolation — directly in service code. This will require deep experience with distributed systems, debugging complex failure modes across service boundaries, and writing production-quality Go. If you are someone who thrives on fixing hard reliability problems in live systems rather than building greenfield, this role is for you.
