Principal Software Engineer - Platform

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM 

We build Lattice, the foundation for everything we do as a defense technology company. Our engineers are talented and hard-working, motivated to see their work rapidly deployed on the front lines. Our team is not just building an experiment in waiting, we deploy what we build on the Southern border, Iraq, Ukraine and more. 

We have open roles across Platform Engineering, ranging from core infrastructure to distributed systems, web development, networking and more. We hire self-motivated people, those who hold a higher bar for themselves than anyone else could hold for them. If you love building infrastructure, platform services, or just working in high performing engineering cultures we invite you to apply! 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead high-impact projects through requirements analysis, design, and execution
• Provide technical leadership across a group of 15-25 software engineers
• Design and develop complex distributed software services and APIs that operate in non-traditional networking environments
• Work with partner teams to understand problems, identify opportunities, and build consensus
• Deliver well architected systems through clear interfaces across components, code reviews, design reviews and modern software engineering practices
• Champion test-ability, portability, monitoring, scalability, reliability, and maintainability as core parts of software delivery
• Gain a working understanding of Anduril’s business lines and collaborate with leaders to build cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users
• Communicate effectively to plan, execute and deliver results across multiple teams and functions
• Be an advocate for excellent engineering culture across the team
• Mentor and coach engineers in the team to help them achieve their results and grow their career
• Work on a modern tech stack involving Go services, React web apps, and distributed key value stores

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with customers to deliver novel software capabilities
• Building and integrating model/software/hardware-in-the-loop components by leveraging first and third party technologies (related to simulation, data management, compute infrastructure, networking, and more)
• Building platform and infrastructure tooling that enables other software engineers to scale their output
• Enjoy collaborating with team members and partners in the autonomy domain, and building technologies and processes which enable users to safely and rapidly develop and deploy autonomous systems at scale
• Hands-on coding in a modern programming language at least 30% of the time
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• You've built or invented something: an app, a website, game, startup
• 10+ years working in an engineering setting: a startup (or startup-like environment), engineering school, etc. If you've succeeded in a low structure, high autonomy environment you'll succeed here!
• Professional software development lifecycle experience using tools such as version control, CI/CD systems, etc.
• A deep, demonstrated understanding of how computers and networks work, from a single desktop to a multi-cluster cloud node
• At least 7+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Rust, Go, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.
• Experience building scalable backend software systems with various data storage and processing requirements
• Experience with industry standard cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), CI/CD tools, and software infrastructure fundamentals (networking, security, distributed systems)
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• Experience implementing robot or autonomous vehicle testing frameworks in a software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) environment
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (e.g. NixOS, Terraform)
• Expe