Mission Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$166k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, observability, and alerting systems.
- Build infrastructure automation to manage large-scale distributed systems.
- Improve system reliability through architectural changes rather than operational workarounds.
- Debug complex distributed-systems issues across multiple layers of the stack.
- Lead responses to critical outages and manage incidents effectively.
- Support infrastructure for Lattice for Mission Autonomy and autonomous systems including Fury and Barracuda.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience, including at least 3+ years focused on low-level infrastructure, production operations, or infrastructure engineering.
- Deep production Kubernetes expertise, including operational challenges at scale.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Rust, or Java with the ability to build production-grade tooling.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Ability to debug complex distributed-systems issues across multiple layers of the stack.
- Track record of improving system reliability through architectural changes.
- Incident-management and communication experience, including leading responses to critical outages.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience with defense, aerospace, or other mission-critical systems.
- Preferred expertise in performance optimization and capacity planning for high-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Preferred knowledge of chaos engineering and resilience testing frameworks.
- Preferred familiarity with deployment automation platforms including ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker, or Jenkins.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including load balancing, DNS, TLS/SSL, and network security.
- Experience with configuration and secrets management solutions such as Vault, Sealed Secrets, or SOPS.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience designing and implementing observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, EFK, or equivalent.
- Active Secret or higher security clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost for full-time employees.
- Benefits support health, recovery, and related employee needs.
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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.