Anduril
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Space
$183K–$243K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 11, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
About the job
Operate and secure classified, globally distributed infrastructure supporting Space Domain Awareness missions for the United States Space Force.
What you'll do
- Stand up, harden, and maintain Linux infrastructure in air-gapped environments, including enforcing STIG compliance.
- Build infrastructure as code and automation; operate Kubernetes workloads and observability systems.
- Provide incident response, deployment support, customer-site documentation and training, and 24x7 on-call coverage.
What they ask for
- Active U.S. Secret security clearance; must currently hold and be able to maintain it.
- 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
- Experience with STIG compliance, system hardening, and infrastructure in air-gapped/classified environments.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code, Bash and Python scripting, observability tooling, and Linux.
Nice to have
- Military background, especially veterans familiar with DoD operations.
- COMSEC and HAIPE-compliant inline Type-1 network encryptors; networking certifications (CCNA or equivalent); Space Domain Awareness or Lattice OS familiarity; or additional programming languages and open-source contributions.
Pay
$183,000 — $243,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Linux, Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Bash, Python, Prometheus
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