Senior Production Engineer, Anduril Industries
$191-287k
+ Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
Office located in Costa Mesa, CA
Hardware and software for national security
Be an early applicant
Hardware and software for national security
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$191-287k
+ Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
Office located in Costa Mesa, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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)
Our take
Anduril makes hardware and software for defense agencies including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Its hardware products include specialist drones with a long flight time and surveillance towers.
This hardware is tied together by proprietary software, the Lattice platform, which uses sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to integrate real-time data from Anduril hardware and third-party systems into a single, autonomous operating picture. While the hardware observes and detects, the software can make decisions as to the threat level of any anomalies, and so allow for observation and protection of an area or building with minimal manpower.
Anduril closed a $1 billion Series G funding round in 2025 led by the Founders Fund, doubling its valuation to $30 billion. This oversubscribed funding round came after the company doubled its revenue in 2024, when it won a contract with the US military to build its soldiers' VY/AR headsets for combat, a contract the company beat Microsoft to. On top of this, it's already raising a new round in 2026, aiming to double its valuation after winning a major US Space Force contract. The future, then, looks bright for Anduril.
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Insights
68% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
May 2026
$5bn
SERIES H
Jul 2025
$310m
GRANT
Total funding: $11.5bn
Company benefits
- Full Family Health Coverage
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers
- Family Planning & Support
- Incentivized Time Off
- Mental Health Resources
- Financial Planning
- Unlimited Provisions
- Professional Development
Company HQ
Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Brian Schimpf
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at Cornell, they joined Palantir as an Engineer in 2007. They left after over 9 years in order to co-found Anduril in July 2017 as CEO.
Palmer Luckey
(Co-Founder)They founded Oculus VR in April 2012, where they worked until April 2017 when they co-founded Anduril.
Trae Stephens
(Co-Founder)Former Lead Data Analyst at LexisNexis for 2 years, prior to spending 5 at Palantir. They joined Founders Fund as a Partner in 2014, and co-founded Anduril in 2017.
Matt Grimm
(Co-Founder & COO)Studied Engineering at Cornell before working as a Booz Allen Hamilton Consultant and spending over 6 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer. They worked at Mithril Capital Management and Classy.org before co-founding Anduril in 2017.
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