Senior Software Engineer, Tactical Networking
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Layer 3 networking for DDIL environments, including VPN tunnel management, dynamic routing, and multi-path failover.
- Build radio integration layers that provide a unified interface across diverse tactical waveforms.
- Design QoS scheduling and traffic shaping for mission-critical data under severe bandwidth constraints.
- Build network management and orchestration systems for real-time topology configuration and adaptation.
- Architect PKI infrastructure, including certificate authorities, issuance, renewal, revocation, rotation, and re-keying across intermittently connected nodes.
- Implement zero-trust identity verification across mesh communication paths.
- Build network observability and CLI tooling using metrics, dashboards, and eBPF-based instrumentation.
- Debug networking issues from deployed assets through cloud infrastructure.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Rust, C, C++, or Go.
- Strong understanding of Layer 3 networking, IP routing, tunneling, TCP/UDP, and socket programming.
- Experience building distributed or networked systems such as SDN/SD-WANs, VPNs, routing daemons, or network control planes.
- Understanding of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, certificate chains, and TLS.
- Experience designing or operating PKI systems, including certificate authorities, ACME, EST, or custom issuance protocols.
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming models and network debugging tools including tcpdump, Wireshark, and iproute2.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience with FIPS 140-2/140-3 validated cryptographic modules, post-quantum cryptography, CSNA 2.0 compliance, HSMs, TPMs, OSPF, BGP, software-defined networking, tactical radio systems, military waveforms, or Kubernetes networking.
Benefits
- US base salary range of $191,000—$253,000.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
- Top-tier benefits are available at little to no cost to full-time employees.
About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.