Senior Software Engineer - Terra

Anduril is a defense technology company, bringing Silicon Valley talent and funding to the defense sector. Our technology helps our customers solve their toughest challenges by enabling them to make better, more informed decisions in life-and-death situations. We’ve assembled a diverse team of experts in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions to radically evolve the capabilities of the United States and our allies. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact, come join Anduril and build the future of defense.
Anduril’s Lattice software platform integrates together many sensors into a single cohesive view of the world, providing needed context for our users. Anduril is seeking an experienced developer to join the core Maps group that is a centerpiece of the Anduril Lattice platform. With our focus on defense and national security, Maps play a critical role on the platform to ensure that front-line decision makers and robotic systems have the best information about their environment available. The technologies that back our Maps services must be reliable and operate correctly across a variety of hosting environments, serving heterogenous data sources that cover our mission needs, and provide the information that is needed across all domains. You will be building infrastructure that humans and robots will depend upon to understand and interact with the world.
In this role you will be a partner with many other parties to define and execute on the Maps roadmap. You will also work closely with operators, customers, and account leads to understand how our platform is used, to help identify gaps in our offering, build a plan, and then execute.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working alongside a team of engineers with a diverse set of backgrounds and skills. Anduril has a collaborative culture with many opportunities for ownership. As an early member of the team, your decisions today will have a large impact on the company now and into the future, as well as our customers. This is an opportunity to join a small and talented team to help make the Anduril Maps experience a world class offering for our customers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Full lifecycle development of mapping software products from problem discovery to solution delivery, including pipelines for map data and service of data in offline or intermittently-connected environments.
• Contribute to the technical architecture within your engineering group and collaborate on adjacent groups’ work to deliver capabilities.
• Engage and iterate with hardware and software groups across Anduril who use geospatial data to fulfill diverse mission requirements.
• Grow the team’s impact by mentoring and coaching teammates.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 5 years of software development experience with technologies related to the task
• Experience processing and handling large volumes of data, possibly terabytes at a time
• Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable software solutions
• Experience with SQL and other database technologies
• Experience with high performance data processing pipelines in C++, Python, and other languages
• Experience profiling performance of CPU, disk, and network processes and an understanding of where tradeoffs can be made to optimize the end-to-end experience
• Experience in a flexible work environment with coworkers and customers around the world
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 10 years of software development experience
• A passion for sharing learning and knowledge, being a mentor to your colleagues
• Experience architecting large-scale data systems from the ground up
• Experience in Geospatial or GIS fields
• Experience with QGIS, GDAL, or other GIS tools
• Experience defining and creating high-performance, high-reliability development processes
• Experience building deployment pipelines for software and data
• A desire to wrangle chaos into order
• A willingness to travel to customer sites to interact with the users and see the systems in use

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you are someone passionate to work on problems that matter, we’d love to hear from you!