Senior Backend Engineer - Defense Tech, Mission-Critical Ops

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is hiring backend generalist software engineers to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services powering mission-critical applications. You will work across teams to implement robust data models and pipelines, ensuring secure, high-performance systems for defense tech.

The role emphasizes collaboration with robotics and frontend teams, rapid iteration, and end-to-end lifecycle contributions in distributed architectures.

Qualifications

• Strong technical foundation in CS/SE/Math/Physics.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services for mission-critical applications.
• Architect data models, databases, and pipelines for large-scale processing.
• Collaborate with frontend, robotics, and other teams to define service requirements and integration.
• Optimize performance, identify bottlenecks, and improve data flow and responsiveness.
• Contribute to full software lifecycle from design to deployment and maintenance of distributed systems.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/Math/Physics

Tools

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Data pipelines

Job description

Anduril Industries is hiring backend generalist software engineers to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services powering mission-critical applications. You will work across teams to implement robust data models and pipelines, ensuring secure, high-performance systems for defense tech.

The role emphasizes collaboration with robotics and frontend teams, rapid iteration, and end-to-end lifecycle contributions in distributed architectures.