Principal Software Engineer, InfraEng Platform Team
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$253k - $336k/yr
Responsibilities
- Evaluate the existing codebase and determine whether to extend or replace it.
- Design and build the platform hub’s APIs, services, data models, console, and CLI across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments.
- Define control-plane and data-plane architecture, partner service contracts, shared patterns, and self-service workflows.
- Build identity, RBAC and ABAC authorization, and complete audit trails for platform actions.
- Establish CI/CD pipelines, source-control and release practices, and deployment safety controls.
- Own production operations, including observability, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
- Partner with connectivity, backbone, cloud, and product teams while mentoring engineers who join the team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and operating platform or infrastructure software at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or equivalent systems and platform languages.
- Deep understanding of control-plane and data-plane design, desired state, reconciliation, failure isolation, and blast radius.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or equivalent major cloud providers across compute, networking, IAM, storage, and managed Kubernetes.
- Strong grounding in containers, ephemeral compute, Docker, Kubernetes, and immutable infrastructure patterns.
- Experience shipping backend services and user-facing console, CLI, or API surfaces for large user bases.
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and branching and release strategies for safe deployments with many contributors.
- Depth in networking, systems, or cloud, plus strong operational ownership and root-cause focus.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and peer teams without direct authority.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a US Secret Security clearance.
- Preferred: experience with OIDC, SAML, OPA, Cedar, RBAC, ABAC, Azure, on-prem environments, Kubernetes controllers or operators, Crossplane, Terraform, OpenTofu, enterprise networking, FedRAMP, DoD IL levels, CMMC, TypeScript, and React.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
- Full-time employee benefits support health, recovery, and related needs.
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.