Geospatial Platform Lead — Production Systems & Roadmap

Anduril Industries; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a software engineering leader to run Terra, our geospatial platform team. You will lead ~12 engineers, shape the technical and product direction for geospatial data, and own production systems used by field operations.

You'll collaborate with air, maritime, and space business lines, simulation teams, and external data partners, balancing hands-on architecture with team building to deliver reliable, scalable software.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Background in geospatial, GIS, mapping, or remote sensing (GDAL, PostGIS, tiling/WMTS).
• Experience with Go, Python and cloud infrastructure (K8s, AWS, Azure).
• Track record of owning production data or serving systems with uptime requirements.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and storage (terabytes and up).

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and develop a team of software and GIS engineers.
• Own the delivery and reliability of Terra’s production systems.
• Set the roadmap for the map environment: basemaps, charts, and synthetic data.
• Work with business lines to translate mission needs into usable products.
• Own Terra’s map content strategy with data partnerships and licensing.
• Tell the Terra story through docs, demos, and roadmaps.

Skills

Geospatial data

Go

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Production systems

Data processing

Communication

Security clearance readiness

Education

Tools

GDAL

PostGIS

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a software engineering leader to run Terra, our geospatial platform team. You will lead ~12 engineers, shape the technical and product direction for geospatial data, and own production systems used by field operations.

You'll collaborate with air, maritime, and space business lines, simulation teams, and external data partners, balancing hands-on architecture with team building to deliver reliable, scalable software.