Platform Engineer, Distributed Simulation & Kubernetes

Anduril-1; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Distributed Simulation team. The role focuses on building services that provision and orchestrate simulation environments across cloud and on‑prem, with a strong emphasis on end‑to‑end ownership of subsystems.

You will work on complex problems, ship code end-to-end, mentor others, and collaborate with internal teams and customers to improve the platform for high‑scale use cases.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong production experience with Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services for provisioning, orchestrating, and tearing down distributed test environments on Kubernetes.
• Own subsystems end-to-end from design through rollout and user feedback.
• Scale compute layer, optimize capacity, performance, and resource usage.
• Improve interfaces for users to describe complex test topologies without Kubernetes expertise.
• Support deployments across cloud and on‑prem environments with repeatable tooling.
• Enhance reliability via instrumentation, monitoring, and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Go/Rust/C++/Java/Python

Distributed systems

On-call experience

Strong communication

Education

Computer Science degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD

gRPC/protobuf

KubeVirt/virtualization

Linux

Job description

Anduril Industries in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Distributed Simulation team. The role focuses on building services that provision and orchestrate simulation environments across cloud and on‑prem, with a strong emphasis on end‑to‑end ownership of subsystems.

You will work on complex problems, ship code end-to-end, mentor others, and collaborate with internal teams and customers to improve the platform for high‑scale use cases.