Senior Production Engineer
Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Irvine, CA (OC-62)
Defenseonsitesenior$183k–$243k
At a glance
Highlights
- Fix cascading failures in multi-tenant cloud deployments for defense contracts.
- Own reliability for core platform services across 10+ production environments.
- Support cutting-edge autonomy and AI delivered to the military in months.
What they offer
- Highly competitive equity grants
Ideal candidate
A seasoned reliability-focused engineer who thrives debugging live distributed systems and fixing hard stability problems rather than building greenfield projects.
Requirements
- 4+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or backend development roles
- Production-quality Go - 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
- Debugging complex systems - tracing cascading failures across service boundaries
- 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
Lab profile
About Anduril
Defense technology company building autonomous systems for military missions.
What they build
- Lattice OS
- Ghost
- Anvil
Known for
- Autonomous defense systems
- AI-powered command and control
- Rapid hardware-software iteration
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California
- Backed by Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz
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