Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer

Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, CA

Level: Senior
Team: Reliability
Industry: Aerospace & defense
Posted: 30+ days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A senior reliability role at Anduril Industries (aerospace & defense) in Costa Mesa, CA. This team is expanding its scope to provide SRE capabilities for on-prem systems, so there’s an opportunity to help shape that practice from the ground up.

Tools it names: Root cause, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Automation, Capacity planning, Tooling
Day to day: some off-shift / weekend coverage

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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026

Reliability Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $115k–$165k.

Median of the low and high ends of 61 live postings that list pay, out of 130 reliability engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 129 other live reliability postings in California.

Base pay: Not listed in this posting
Experience asked: Not stated

Skills these teams ask for most

✓ Root cause 71%
FMEA 43%
New product launch 42%
✓ Automation 32%
✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 28%
SPC 20%

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Stands out: this posting asks for Capacity planning, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

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Off-shift / weekend coverage

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What you'll do

◆Serve as a primary owner for critical services, including on-call and knowledge-sharing across the team
◆Own the lifecycle of core self-hosted developer tools (e.g., RunAI, GitHub Enterprise Server, CircleCI, JFrog Artifactory/Xray)
◆Design and implement automated systems for patching, backups (with validation), and upgrades
◆Scale infrastructure to support a fast-growing engineering org
◆Use Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) to manage environments
◆Operate and troubleshoot systems using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
◆Define and maintain SLOs for service availability, reliability, and performance
◆Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for developer tool services
◆Lead and participate in incident response and root cause analysis
◆Work cross-functionally with platform, security, infrastructure (on-prem and cloud), and software teams

Required qualifications

✓Experience operating infrastructure outside of managed cloud services — bare-metal kubernetes and on-prem virtualization (VMware ESXi/vSphere)
✓Experience operating production systems using Docker and Kubernetes
✓Strong foundational knowledge of Linux (RHEL , Ubuntu)
✓Proficiency with at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
✓Experience managing infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform/OpenTofu)
✓Experience with configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
✓Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on automation
✓Scripting or software development experience (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)
✓Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
✓Ability to own systems end-to-end, from design to incident resolution
✓Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred qualifications

✓Experience with RKE2 (or other bare-metal Kubernetes distro such as k3s, kubeadm, or OpenShift) and Cilium
✓Prior experience with GitHub Enterprise Server, JFrog Artifactory/Xray, or CircleCI
✓Experience with GitOps workflows and tooling (e.g., ArgoCD/FluxCD)
✓Experience maintaining highly available, scalable internal tools
✓Exposure to security best practices, compliance requirements, or auditing
✓Experience supporting large, rapidly scaling engineering organizations
✓Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
✓Background in SRE or hybrid SWE/DevOps roles
✓Experience with on-prem infrastructure operations, reliability, or capacity planning
✓Experience operating GPU or HPC infrastructure and workload schedulers (eg., RunAI, Slurm, Kubeflow, Volcano)

$166,000 — $220,000 USD

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

Infrastructure Reliability Engineering (IRE) is a small but growing team responsible for the infrastructure and operations behind the core developer tools and on-prem compute platforms used across the entire engineering organization. We own the services every engineer depends on daily — source control, CI/CD, and artifact management — as well as the on-prem infrastructure behind simulation and GPU workloads. As the company’s on-prem footprint grows, this team is expanding its scope to provide SRE capabilities for on-prem systems, so there’s an opportunity to help shape that practice from the ground up.

About the job

You’ll own the full lifecycle — patching, upgrades, backups, scaling, and incident response — for services that engineering depends on daily. The role blends DevOps, SRE, and software engineering, and is ideal for engineers who want high ownership and company-wide impact. You should have a mindset of continuous improvement: if something is manual and repetitive, your instinct should be to automate it away.