Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - DSB Networking

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for the Data Distribution team to design and build the core networking infrastructure that connects thousands of assets in contested environments.

The role requires strong systems programming, distributed networking experience, and the ability to solve hard problems under real-world constraints, with opportunities to work on gRPC, telemetry, and security features.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in systems programming languages (Rust, C, C++, or Go).
• Strong understanding of TCP/UDP, sockets, MTU, multicast, TLS/mTLS.
• Experience with distributed systems (message buses, RPC, consensus).
• Familiarity with async programming models and futures.
• Comfort with Protocol Buffers and/or gRPC.
• Ability to read packet captures and use network debugging tools.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for the Distributed Service Bus, including gossip protocols and routing.
• Build and extend the gRPC proxy layer for DSB communications.
• Debug distributed networking issues across radios, UDP/TCP, and mesh routing.
• Collaborate with product teams to deploy DSB on new hardware platforms.
• Design protocol-level optimizations for bandwidth-constrained RF links.
• Write RFCs and design documents for new protocol features and APIs.
• Build deterministic simulation harnesses for reproducible testing.
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and dsbtool.
• Enhance security with packet signing, encryption, and compliance considerations.

Skills

Systems programming

Networking fundamentals

Distributed systems

Async programming

gRPC / Protobuf

Security clearance

Packet analysis

Tools

Rust

C

C++

Go

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for the Data Distribution team to design and build the core networking infrastructure that connects thousands of assets in contested environments.

The role requires strong systems programming, distributed networking experience, and the ability to solve hard problems under real-world constraints, with opportunities to work on gRPC, telemetry, and security features.