Staff Software Engineer, Connected Warfare

About The Team

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The Connected Warfare division’s Mission Command team builds, deploys, integrates, extends, and scales Anduril's software and hardware to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers. As the software engineers closest to Anduril customers and end-users, Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities such as Lattice Mesh, Joint All Domain Command & Control, and Anduril's Menace Family-of-Systems.

As a Software Engineer on the Mission Command team, you will build the foundation for a first-of-its-kind platform designed for the tactical edge, solving novel problems across networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and next-generation distributed data layers. Powering resilient, machine-speed decision-making for warfighters and allies—even in contested, disconnected environments—your work will ensure Anduril’s products seamlessly work together and with third parties to deliver customer value. Driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset, the Mission Command team balances intentional, long-term system design with the pragmatic tradeoffs needed to meet immediate customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Own software solutions spanning core mesh platforms, data interfaces, and release management deployed directly to customers to scale critical mission capabilities.
• Deliver well-architected systems using modern software engineering practices—including code and design reviews—while championing scalability, reliability, testability, portability, and maintainability.
• Drive software solutions end-to-end, partnering closely with end-users to translate complex needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex, cross-functional functionality.
• Ensure system health and rapid resolution by creating and analyzing monitoring metrics, triaging production issues, root-causing failures, and coordinating next steps.
• Travel 10% – 30% of the time to meet customers wherever in the world they are, collaborate with teammates across the globe, understand real-world operating conditions, and build, test, and deploy capabilities directly in the field.

Requirements

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Mathematics, or Physics
• At least 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, etc.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with and designing distributed systems
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality results at pace, ideally within a startup or high-growth environment
• Deep networking experience, especially for distributed systems operating in non-standard networking conditions
• Familiarity with industry standard cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and software infrastructure fundamentals (networking, security, distributed systems)
• A deep, demonstrated understanding of how computers and networks work, from a single desktop to a multi-cluster cloud node
• Professional software development lifecycle experience using tools such as version control, CI/CD systems, etc.
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices

Pay

US Salary Range $220,000—$292,000 USD

Benefits

Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensuring support in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.