Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer

Anduril•Costa Mesa, CA

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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)

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
top-tier benefits for full-time employees
comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

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