Lead Infra Platform Engineer - Self-Service Hub

Anduril-1; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 253,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead InfraEng Platform. You will define architecture, standards, and delivery for the hub that exposes infrastructure as self‑service across AWS, Azure, and on‑prem.

This hands‑on role dives into networking, systems, and cloud, shaping the platform’s future and setting engineering practices. You will own security, identity, and data planes, build backend services and surfaces (console, CLI, API), and mentor new engineers while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and operating platform or infrastructure software at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Java, or equivalent languages suited to systems and platform work.
• Deep understanding of control plane and data plane design: desired state, reconciliation, failure isolation, and blast radius.
• Strong hands-on AWS or equivalent major cloud providers, experience across compute, networking, IAM, storage, and managed Kubernetes.
• Strong grounding in containers and ephemeral compute, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and immutable infrastructure patterns, or equivalent.
• Experience shipping both backend services and user-facing surfaces (console, CLI, or API) for large and varied user bases.
• A track record of designing CI/CD pipelines and branching and release strategies that keep deployments safe with many contributors.
• Depth below the application layer in networking, systems, or cloud, and the willingness to learn the others.
• High ownership and operational excellence. You run what you build, measure it, and fix root causes.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and peer teams without authority.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a US Secret Security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the existing codebase and set technical direction: keep, extend, or rebuild.
• Design and build the hub’s core: the APIs, services, and data models that expose infrastructure as self‑service across AWS, Azure, and on‑prem.
• Decide where control planes and data planes separate, where they nest, and where they should not. Document the reasoning so others can extend it.
• Define the contracts and patterns partner teams use to plug into the hub, then help them adopt those patterns.
• Build a single identity and authorization layer (RBAC and ABAC) with a complete audit trail for every action the platform exposes.
• Ship backend services and the console, CLI, and API surfaces users touch. Most of this will be in Go, Python, or Java, but you will pick the right tool for the job.
• Turn common infrastructure requests into bounded self‑service actions that take tickets off the critical path.
• Establish the CI/CD pipelines, source control practices, and deployment safety controls for a codebase with many contributors.
• Own what you build in production, including observability, on‑call, incident response, and postmortems.
• Partner with connectivity, backbone, cloud, and product teams on shared interfaces.
• Mentor the engineers who join the team after you.

Skills

Go

Python/Java

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

RBAC/ABAC design

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead InfraEng Platform. You will define architecture, standards, and delivery for the hub that exposes infrastructure as self‑service across AWS, Azure, and on‑prem.

This hands‑on role dives into networking, systems, and cloud, shaping the platform’s future and setting engineering practices. You will own security, identity, and data planes, build backend services and surfaces (console, CLI, API), and mentor new engineers while