Mission-Critical Distributed Systems Engineer Remote-Friendly

JoinStartup; United States; Remote; USD 166,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to build mission-critical distributed systems and mesh platforms for military command and control operations. The role emphasizes fast delivery, reliability, and scalability for field deployments and customer-facing software.

You'll own end-to-end software solutions, partner with end-users, and collaborate across multiple teams to deliver complex functionality while maintaining system health through monitoring and proactive issue

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Secret Clearance is required and must be maintained.
• Strong engineering background in CS/Software Eng, Networking, Math, or Physics.
• 3–10+ years of experience with multiple programming languages listed above.
• Experience building data-intensive software systems and large-scale processing.
• Ability to understand and navigate complex, established code bases.
• Motivation to work on mission-critical software with real-world impact.

Responsibilities

• Own software solutions spanning core mesh platforms, data interfaces, and release management deployed to customers.
• Deliver well-architected systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Translate complex user needs into features by partnering with end users.
• Collaborate across teams to plan, build, and test cross-functional functionality.
• Ensure system health with monitoring metrics, triage production issues, and root-cause failures.
• Travel 10%–30% to meet customers worldwide and deploy capabilities in the field.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Distributed Systems

Networking

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Monitoring

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to build mission-critical distributed systems and mesh platforms for military command and control operations. The role emphasizes fast delivery, reliability, and scalability for field deployments and customer-facing software.

You'll own end-to-end software solutions, partner with end-users, and collaborate across multiple teams to deliver complex functionality while maintaining system health through monitoring and proactive issue