Senior Product Operations Engineer, Space

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Anduril’s Space team develops AI-powered capabilities for Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners. The team builds integrated hardware and software systems, including Lattice for Space Missions and modular payloads, to address threats in space.

The Senior Product Operations Engineer is a senior individual contributor and technical anchor on a team supporting a live, operational DoD system. The role operates, maintains, hardens, and evolves a classified networking capability that delivers Space Domain Awareness data for the United States Space Force. It owns the reliability and security posture of globally distributed infrastructure in air-gapped environments, including establishing sites, achieving STIG compliance, maintaining infrastructure as code, and ensuring observability. The engineer works with mission software engineers, product operations teammates, mission operations engineers, and technical program managers to deploy capabilities on operationally relevant timelines, and supports customer-site end users through documentation, training, and issue response.

The position supports an ongoing, funded Space Business Line program to build and field a resilient, software-defined, distributed mesh networking layer for critical Space Domain Awareness data. It includes 24x7 on-call support for the mission.

Requirements

• Must currently hold an active U.S. Secret security clearance and be able to maintain it; TS/SCI clearance is preferred.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, including deploying, scaling, debugging, and managing containerized workloads.
• Expert-level Linux proficiency, including networking, filesystems, systemd, SELinux, and kernel tuning.
• Proven experience applying STIGs, remediating findings, and understanding the rationale behind system-hardening controls.
• Strong experience standing up infrastructure in air-gapped or classified environments and operating within their constraints.
• Proficiency with Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform for building, managing, and versioning infrastructure as code at scale.
• Strong Bash and Python scripting skills, including production-grade automation, tooling, and operational scripts.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack for monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing distributed systems.
• Technical leadership and the ability to align engineers and drive decisions through competence, directness, and reliability, without a management title.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, including translating complex technical problems into clear, actionable language for different audiences.
• Initiative and self-direction in isolated, secure environments.
• Understanding of software development practices, including Git, code review, testing, and agile methodologies.
• Enthusiasm for advancing U.S. and allied military capabilities with technology in space environments.

Nice To Haves

• Military background, particularly experience as a veteran familiar with operational environments, DoD culture, and the mission.
• Experience with COMSEC and HAIPE-compliant inline Type-1 network encryptors.
• Networking certifications such as CCNA or equivalent.
• Familiarity with Space Domain Awareness data and systems.
• Knowledge of Anduril’s Lattice OS and its capabilities.
• Proficiency in additional languages such as Go, Rust, or Java, and contributions to open-source projects.
• TS/SCI security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical subject matter expert on a Product Operations team supporting a live operational DoD system, helping establish team standards for operations, communication, and problem-solving.
• Stand up, harden, and maintain classified Linux-based infrastructure across globally distributed sites in air-gapped environments.
• Apply and enforce STIG compliance and system-hardening standards, owning the security posture of deployed environments.
• Build, maintain, and evolve infrastructure as code using Ansible, Puppet, and related tools to automate provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines.
• Write and maintain operational tooling, automation scripts, and workflow optimizations in Bash and Python.
• Architect and maintain observability across the stack, including logging, alerting, and tracing for distributed systems.
• Manage and operate containerized workloads in Kubernetes at scale in production classified environments.
• Provide real-time incident response, rapid root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex issues across application code and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Mission Operations, and Technical Program Managers to validate operational readiness of deployments, features, and integrations.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support as part of a team supporting the Space Domain Awareness mission for the United States Space Force.
• Drive continuous improvement through proactive automation, system optimization, and process refinement, using sound judgment about when to escalate.
• Provide clear documentation, train remote staff, and serve as a first point of contact for issues at customer sites worldwide.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed