Mission-Critical Software Engineer — Secret Clearance

Andurilindustries; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Software Engineer for the Mission Command team. You will build foundational platform software for the tactical edge, tackling networking, autonomy, and data layers to enable rapid, reliable decisions for warfighters.

You will work across teams to deliver scalable, high-quality software that integrates with customer environments and third-party systems, with travel up to 30% and a strong emphasis on real-world impact.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Secret Clearance required and maintainable.
• Strong engineering background in CS, SWE, Networking, Math, or Physics.
• 3–10+ years with Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust.
• Experience building data-intensive software.
• Ability to navigate complex code bases quickly.
• Desire to work on critical software with real-world impact.

Responsibilities

• Own software solutions spanning core mesh platforms and data interfaces.
• Deliver well-architected systems with scalability and testability.
• Drive end-to-end software solutions, translating needs into features.
• Collaborate across teams to plan and test cross-functional functionality.
• Ensure system health with monitoring, triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Travel 10–30% to meet customers globally and test in the field.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C++

Rust

US Secret Clearance

Data processing

Distributed systems

Tools

Git

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

Monitoring tools

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Software Engineer for the Mission Command team. You will build foundational platform software for the tactical edge, tackling networking, autonomy, and data layers to enable rapid, reliable decisions for warfighters.

You will work across teams to deliver scalable, high-quality software that integrates with customer environments and third-party systems, with travel up to 30% and a strong emphasis on real-world impact.