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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer 2 - Production Engineering - **Company:** Anduril Industries - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $147,000 - $185,000 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Configuration Management, Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Network Security, Networking Basics, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Anti-Phishing, Software Engineering, Datadog, Circleci, Data Logging, Transport Layer Security, Load Balancing, Performance Testing, Grafana, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Low Latency, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Pagerduty - **Published:** October 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9281901/site-reliability-engineer-2-production-engineering ## About the Role * 2-4 years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in SRE, production operations, or infrastructure engineering * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience * Hands-on experience troubleshooting Kubernetes in production, with an understanding of version lifecycles, patching, and ongoing operational risks * Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Go, Python, Rust, or Java, with the ability to build production-grade tooling * Experience building and using observability tooling for metrics, logging, and tracing, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent * Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and infrastructure as code practices, preferably Terraform * Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems issues across multiple layers of the stack and work with owning teams on durable fixes * Strong incident management and communication skills * 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, * Experience with defense, aerospace, or other mission-critical systems where downtime has severe consequences * Familiarity with performance optimization and capacity planning for high-throughput, low-latency systems * Knowledge of chaos engineering principles and experience with resilience testing * Experience with Kubernetes ingress and traffic management (Gateway API, Contour, or similar) * Familiarity with GitOps and deployment automation (ArgoCD, FluxCD) and CI build infrastructure (CircleCI, Nix, or similar) * Experience with Terraform workflows at scale, including module design and PR-based automation (Atlantis or similar) * Experience with incident and alerting tooling such as PagerDuty, Datadog, or Groundcover * Understanding of networking fundamentals including load balancing, DNS, TLS/SSL, and network security * Experience with configuration management and secrets management solutions * Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders * Active Secret or higher security clearance ## Description We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer 2 who is passionate about building resilient, highly available systems that scale to meet the demands of the core systems powering Lattice. You will work closely with platform engineers, product developers, and field operations to proactively identify reliability risks, respond to incidents, and help owning teams improve the operational excellence of our software platform. This is a hands-on role on a growing team, with opportunities to build shared tooling and processes that make reliability improvements easier to deliver. If you thrive on solving hard problems and want your work to have a direct impact on national security, this is the role for you., * Build and improve monitoring, observability, and alerting systems to detect reliability issues early and make them easier to diagnose across the Lattice platform * Participate in on-call rotations, triage production incidents, and coordinate response and escalation with the teams that own affected services * Contribute to blameless postmortems and work with owning teams to turn incident learnings into systemic improvements * Build and maintain shared reliability tooling and automation that reduce toil, surface risks, and help teams make safer changes * Partner with service owners to identify Kubernetes patch and version risks, develop maintenance plans, and track owner-led updates to completion * Help service teams define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets to balance feature velocity with reliability * Partner with software engineering teams on reliability patterns such as graceful degradation and circuit breakers * Contribute to capacity planning and performance testing with owning teams to help systems handle growth and peak operational demands * Create runbooks, documentation, and training materials that help teams operate production systems effectively * Partner with software engineering teams to improve deployment safety through progressive rollouts, automated testing, and rollback capabilities * Work with service owners to incorporate security best practices and compliance controls in production environments handling sensitive defense data, Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. 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