ABOUT THE TEAM

The Production Engineering team is a newly formed organization within Anduril's Software Platform, dedicated to ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of mission-critical systems that directly support our warfighters in the field. We solve complex reliability challenges at massive scale, ensuring that critical components of Lattice—Anduril's autonomous command and control platform—operates flawlessly in the most demanding operational environments.

This is a foundational role and you will be among the first hires building this team from the ground up. You'll have the unique opportunity to shape the technical direction, establish best practices, and define what production engineering excellence means at Anduril. Our team operates at the intersection of software engineering and systems reliability, building the infrastructure, tooling, and processes that keep our systems operational 24/7/365.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer 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 engineering teams, product developers, and field operations to proactively identify reliability risks, implement defensive strategies, and continuously improve the operational excellence of our software platform. If you thrive on solving hard problems at scale and want your work to have direct impact on national security, this is the role for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, observability, and alerting systems to ensure early detection of reliability issues across the Lattice platform
• Drive incident response and conduct blameless postmortems to identify systemic improvements and prevent recurrence of production issues
• Build and maintain infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes operators, and custom tooling to manage large-scale distributed systems
• Establish and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets to balance feature velocity with system reliability
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve system architecture for reliability, implementing patterns like circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and chaos engineering
• Develop capacity planning models and performance testing frameworks to ensure systems can handle growth and peak operational demands
• Create runbooks, documentation, and training materials to enable teams to operate production systems effectively
• Lead cross-functional efforts to improve deployment safety through progressive rollouts, automated testing, and rollback capabilities
• Implement security best practices and compliance controls for production environments handling sensitive defense data
• Build tooling and automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency for the engineering organization
• Participate in on-call rotations and serve as an escalation point for critical production incidents

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of engineering experience with at least 3+ years focused on SRE, production operations, or infrastructure engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, including operational challenges at scale (100+ nodes)
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Go, Python, Rust, or Java with ability to build production-grade tooling
• Proven experience designing and implementing observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and infrastructure as code practices
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex distributed systems issues across multiple layers of the stack
• Track record of improving system reliability through architectural changes, not just operational band-aids
• Strong incident management and communication skills, with experience leading responses to critical outages
• 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with defense, aerospace, or other mission-critical systems where downtime has severe consequences
• Expertise in performance optimization and capacity planning for high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Knowledge of chaos engineering principles and experience implementing resilience testing frameworks
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and advanced traffic management patterns
• Background in database operations and optimization (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, or similar at scale)
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and deployment automation (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker, Jenkins)
• Understanding of networking fundamentals including load balancing, DNS, TLS/SSL, and network security
• Experience with configuration management and secrets management solutions (Vault, Sealed Secrets, SOPS)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Active Secret or higher security clearance

About the Role:

Rumble Cloud is seeking a Principal Database Architect to own the architecture, technical direction, and successful delivery of our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering within our public cloud platform. This role will take over a product already in active development and guide it through hardening, integration, launch, and global scale-out. You will be responsible for shaping the long-term technical roadmap of the service, ensuring it is secure, reliable, performant, and operable at scale for customers worldwide. You will work closely with our development team, engineering team, and early adopter customers to refine the design, drive high-quality implementation, and build the patterns and practices that future engineers will follow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the DBaaS product, including multitenancy, high availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore, observability, and security.
• Review and influence existing epics, stories, and technical designs, identifying gaps and driving improvements.
• Define and maintain architectural standards and patterns for databases across our public cloud (provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, monitoring, security).
• Work closely with platform, networking, and security teams to integrate DBaaS into our cloud infrastructure, including identity, networking, billing, self-service, and automation.
• Collaborate with Product Management to align technical roadmap with product vision, SLAs/SLOs, and customer requirements.
• Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for DBaaS-related issues in development, staging, and production environments.
• Support onboarding and success of early “friendly” customers: assist with deployments, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and architecture guidance.
• Define and evolve operational runbooks, incident response patterns, and SRE practices for the DBaaS platform.
• Mentor and coach other engineers and architects as we build an internal team around the service, raising the overall bar for database and data platform expertise.
• Establish and enforce security, compliance, and data protection best practices for the DBaaS offering (encryption, access control, auditing, regulatory considerations).
• Participate in capacity planning and cost optimization, ensuring the service is economically viable at scale.
• Conduct periodic architecture reviews and post-incident reviews, driving continuous improvement in reliability and customer experience.
• Support and advise internal teams on the operation, performance, and troubleshooting of existing database clusters, in addition to primary ownership of the DBaaS platform.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level experience in database engineering, data platforms, or infrastructure, with significant ownership of production database systems or services.
• Deep expertise with at least one major relational database engine (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or similar), including replication, backup/restore, performance tuning, and operational best practices.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, including compute, networking, storage, and security in public cloud or large private cloud environments.
• Experience integrating databases or DBaaS-like offerings with cloud control planes, APIs, and automation/orchestration systems.
• Strong background in reliability engineering for data services (monitoring, alerting, SLOs, incident management, capacity planning).
• Familiarity with security and compliance requirements for database services (encryption at rest/in transit, access control, auditing, data retention, regulatory considerations).
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar) and comfort working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting or programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash or similar) for automation, tooling, and integration.
• Proven track record of technical leadership: influencing designs across teams, mentoring engineers, and making clear trade-off decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with external vendors, internal stakeholders, and customers.

Nice to Have (Preferred Skills):

• Strong, hands-on expertise with both MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience designing or operating multi-tenant, high-availability, and distributed database architectures in a cloud or large-scale environment.
• Experience designing or operating a DBaaS offering (e.g., Amazon RDS/Aurora, Azure Database, Cloud SQL, or similar managed services).
• Knowledge of NoSQL or specialized data stores (e.g., Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra) and when to apply them.
• Experience in Kubernetes-based data workloads, operators, or stateful services.
• Familiarity with multi-region architectures, data residency, and geo-replication patterns.
• Exposure to observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry) for data services.
• Relevant certifications in databases, cloud architecture, or security are a plus.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success owning the architecture and technical direction of a mission-critical platform or service.
• Strong customer empathy and a track record of working directly with users or customers to solve complex technical problems.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels, from roadmap and design reviews down to debugging complex production issues.

Annual Compensation Range: 

$185,000 -  $265,000 USD base + benefits + equity (If based in the United States)

$170,000 -  $200,000 USD base + benefits + equity (If based in Canada)

Note: The salary range listed for this position is a good faith estimate based on experience, qualifications, and internal compensation structure. The actual salary offered varies depending on the candidate's skill level and experience. This posting refers to an active vacancy within the organization.