Lead GRC Automation Engineer

Anduril; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineering Lead to build the GRC pipeline, automation, and system of record for controls. You will translate frameworks into automated checks, mentor engineers, and drive technical direction within the security engineering team.

You will work on data pipelines, cloud integrations, and IaC, with eligibility to obtain a U.S. Secret clearance. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role in a high-growth defense tech company.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security engineering, GRC, or a related role, including hands-on building of automation or data pipelines.
• Strong programming ability in a general-purpose language (Go, Python, Rust, etc.)
• Hands-on experience operationalizing compliance frameworks (CMMC, NIST 800-171, 800-53, FedRAMP, SOC 2)
• Experience designing data collection and integration across cloud and SaaS systems (APIs, log/event pipelines, data lakes)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK) in production
• Track record of setting technical direction and mentoring engineers
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance

Responsibilities

• Build the pipeline that collects evidence from Anduril's systems and maps it to a normalized control model
• Construct reusable collectors and schemas as reference architectures so each new control is assembly, not reinvention
• Stand up the system of record for controls, mappings, and evidence, and drive the build‑vs‑buy analysis
• Surface control drift and route findings to system owners with clear remediation and risk‑acceptance paths
• Translate frameworks (CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP/IL5) into automatable technical checks and pass/fail signals
• Set technical direction and mentor a growing engineering team

Skills

Security engineering

Programming (Go/Python/Rust)

Compliance frameworks

Cloud & SaaS data pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Mentoring engineers

Secret clearance eligibility

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

Anduril is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineering Lead to build the GRC pipeline, automation, and system of record for controls. You will translate frameworks into automated checks, mentor engineers, and drive technical direction within the security engineering team.

You will work on data pipelines, cloud integrations, and IaC, with eligibility to obtain a U.S. Secret clearance. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role in a high-growth defense tech company.