Software Engineer, Distributed Simulation
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$166k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services that provision, orchestrate, and tear down distributed test and simulation environments on Kubernetes.
- Own major platform subsystems end to end, including design, rollout, operation, and iteration based on user feedback.
- Scale compute capacity and improve performance and efficient use of resources.
- Improve user-facing interfaces and abstractions for describing complex test environments.
- Build repeatable release and configuration tooling for cloud and on-premise deployments.
- Improve reliability through instrumentation, monitoring, performance work, and root cause analysis.
- Contribute to design and code reviews, technical mentorship, and technical writing.
- Work with internal teams, business lines, and external customers to turn platform needs into shipped improvements.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Computer Science degree or equivalent industry experience.
- Strong production experience with Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
- Production experience building and operating distributed systems or infrastructure platforms, including deployment, monitoring, debugging, and on-call ownership.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience with deep knowledge of controllers, operators, custom resources, and other components.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and modern build and deployment tooling such as Terraform and Helm.
- Ability to own ambiguous, cross-cutting projects through production.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including design-document writing.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred: platform or developer-tooling experience, KubeVirt, qemu, virtualization or hypervisor technologies, large Kubernetes clusters, simulation, modeling, robotics testing, hardware-in-the-loop systems, AWS, Azure, on-premise deployment, Bazel, Buck, Nix, gRPC, protobuf, performance optimization, metrics, alerting, Linux, and databases.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package available at little to no cost, supporting health and recovery.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and form part of total compensation.
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.