Staff Software Engineer, Stateful Systems
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$220k - $292k/yr
Responsibilities
- Redesign the time-series engine to scale horizontally across many writers and nodes while supporting continuous ingestion and live and historical queries.
- Build highly available distributed storage with WAL replication, leader election, pluggable storage engines, and zero-downtime backend migration.
- Design for correctness under network partitions, including consistency and convergence in disconnected deployments.
- Solve distributed-systems problems involving consistency models, replication protocols, compaction, deletion, back pressure, and durability guarantees.
- Own and ship load-bearing systems for Lattice’s field-deployed autonomous systems platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of professional software development experience focused on distributed systems or robotics.
- Deep experience with Python, Go, C++, Rust, or similar systems programming languages.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including replication, consistency, partition behavior, failure modes, and convergence.
- Production experience building or operating storage engines, databases, or large-scale data infrastructure.
- Comfort working in a systems programming language, with depth valued more than a specific language.
- Preferred experience with time-series systems, LSM or B-tree storage internals, FoundationDB, RocksDB, Pebble, or similar key-value stores.
- Preferred experience with systems operating in resource-constrained or intermittently connected environments.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive competitive benefits available at little to no cost.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are part of the total compensation package.
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.