Senior Software Engineer, Data Distribution
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Distributed Service Bus features including gossip protocols, OSPF-style link-state routing, and flow control.
- Build and extend the gRPC proxy layer for communication across the DSB mesh.
- Debug distributed networking issues across tactical radios, UDP/TCP transports, mesh routing, deployed assets, and cloud infrastructure.
- Deploy DSB to new hardware platforms and support migrations from legacy communication buses.
- Optimize protocols for bandwidth-constrained RF links through compression, prefix routing, and priority-based QoS scheduling.
- Write RFCs and technical design documents for protocol features and API surfaces.
- Build deterministic simulation harnesses using production code in reproducible test environments.
- Improve observability with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and dsbtool CLI tooling.
- Contribute to communication-layer security through packet signing with ECDSA, FIPS compliance, and end-to-end encryption.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Rust, C, C++, or Go.
- Strong understanding of TCP/UDP, socket programming, MTU, multicast, TLS, and mTLS.
- Experience building or maintaining distributed systems such as message buses, RPC frameworks, or consensus protocols.
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming models including async/await, event loops, and futures.
- Comfort working with Protocol Buffers and/or gRPC.
- Ability to read packet captures and use tcpdump, Wireshark, or similar network debugging tools.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred: production Rust experience; gossip, epidemic broadcast, or peer-to-peer overlay network experience; OSPF, IS-IS, or BGP familiarity; deterministic simulation or property-based testing experience; and Kubernetes or container orchestration familiarity.
Benefits
- Comprehensive competitive benefits package available at little to no cost, including support for health and recovery.
- Full-time employees may receive equity grants as part of total compensation.
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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.