Lead Classified Platform Engineer (Air-Gapped)

Anduril Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 167,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Classified Platform Engineer to act as the technical lead for our classified software team. You will design and build platform services and user interfaces that run in accredited, air‑gapped environments, owning architecture, DevSecOps pipelines, and engineering standards.

You will guide a small team, decompose multi‑quarter programs, and collaborate with Cybersecurity, Systems, and Infrastructure to meet requirements on time and budget.

Qualifications

• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript for production applications.
• Backend services development in Go.
• Relational database design and optimization (PostgreSQL/CockroachDB).
• Containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes; CI/CD pipelines with GitOps.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for the classified software and platform team: own architecture, set team standards, and make tradeoff calls.
• Design and build production web applications via React and Go for air‑gapped environments.
• Develop and work with S3 storage APIs and policies.
• Build admin interfaces for access control and design datastores for authorization and audit.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Go

System architecture

Team leadership

Security clearance readiness

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps / CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Classified Platform Engineer to act as the technical lead for our classified software team. You will design and build platform services and user interfaces that run in accredited, air‑gapped environments, owning architecture, DevSecOps pipelines, and engineering standards.

You will guide a small team, decompose multi‑quarter programs, and collaborate with Cybersecurity, Systems, and Infrastructure to meet requirements on time and budget.