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Salary: USD 253,000 - 336,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building advanced military systems powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system for command and control. The Infrastructure Engineering team builds and operates the foundations Anduril runs on, including connectivity, cloud, and on-prem systems.
The InfraEng Platform Team owns the central hub—console, CLI, and API—that the rest of the company uses to consume infrastructure. You will be the first software engineer on this team, responsible for setting technical direction, architecture, engineering standards, and delivery practices.
You will evaluate the existing small codebase and decide whether to extend or rebuild it. From there, you will design and build the hub's core APIs, services, and data models that expose infrastructure as self-service across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments. You will define where control planes and data planes separate and document the reasoning for others to extend. You will establish contracts and patterns that partner teams use to plug into the hub, helping them adopt those patterns while they own their domains and you own the hub itself.
Key responsibilities include building a single identity and authorization layer (RBAC and ABAC) with complete audit trails, shipping backend services and user-facing surfaces (console, CLI, API) primarily in Go, Python, or Java, turning common infrastructure requests into bounded self-service actions, establishing CI/CD pipelines and deployment safety controls, owning what you build in production including observability and incident response, partnering with connectivity, backbone, cloud, and product teams on shared interfaces, and mentoring engineers who join the team.
This is a hands-on role where your fingerprints will be on everything the team ships. You will go deep into networking, systems, and cloud when problems require it, influence senior stakeholders and peer teams without direct authority, and drive the platform's evolution from day one.
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 languages suited to systems and platform work
- Deep understanding of control plane and data plane design: desired state, reconciliation, failure isolation, and blast radius
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS or equivalent major cloud providers, across compute, networking, IAM, storage, and managed Kubernetes
- Strong grounding in containers and ephemeral compute (Docker, Kubernetes, immutable infrastructure patterns, or equivalent)
- Experience shipping both backend services and user-facing surfaces (console, CLI, API) for large and varied user bases
- Track record of designing CI/CD pipelines and branching/release strategies that keep deployments safe with many contributors
- Depth below the application layer in networking, systems, or cloud, with willingness to learn the others
- High ownership and operational excellence; you run what you build, measure it, and fix root causes
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and peer teams without authority
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a US Secret Security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience building or integrating with identity and authorization systems (OIDC, SAML, OPA, Cedar, or equivalent)
- Experience implementing RBAC or ABAC models within a product or system
- Experience with Azure, on-prem, or equivalent environments, including abstractions that work across providers
- Experience with Kubernetes controllers, operators, Crossplane, or equivalent infrastructure abstraction frameworks
- Infrastructure as code at scale with Terraform, OpenTofu, or equivalent
- Familiarity with enterprise networking or backbone infrastructure and how platforms expose it to users
- Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, DoD IL levels, CMMC, or equivalent)
- Front-end experience with TypeScript and React, or equivalent, for console development
