Senior Engineer, Edge-Cloud Reliability

Anduril Industries; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health coverage

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Senior Engineer, Edge-Cloud Reliability, to own a critical hub-and-spoke contract between cloud and on-prem edge nodes. You will ensure parity, support DDIL conditions, and lead a sub-team with Go/Rust/Python expertise and GCP knowledge.

The role requires a strong software background, distributed-systems fundamentals, cloud depth, and willingness to travel; leadership and mentorship responsibilities are also included.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Top Secret / SCI clearance
• Software development background mandatory
• Strong proficiency in Go, Rust or Python and distributed-systems fundamentals
• Cloud architecture depth with GCP preference and edge/on-prem experience
• Willing to travel as needed

Responsibilities

• Identity federation and degraded auth: extend centralized identity to disconnected edge and propagate RBAC.
• Data reconciliation and state consistency: own the cloud-edge data-refresh contract and related services.
• Config and architecture drift: automate propagation of cloud changes to edge nodes to maintain parity.
• DDIL reliability mandate: define and test failover/reconnect behavior against HA and DDIL concepts.
• Set technical direction for the sub-team and mentor ICs.

Skills

Top Secret clearance / SCI

Software development

Go / Rust / Python

Distributed systems

GCP cloud architecture

Edge / on-prem deployments

Willing to travel

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

ABOUT THE JOB

As Senior Engineer, Edge-Cloud Reliability, you’ll own a net-new, architecturally critical function: the hub-and-spoke contract between the cloud and our on-prem failover edge nodes. You’ll ensure on-prem nodes mirror cloud architecture at small scale, keep operating through Degraded, Disconnected, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) conditions, and reconcile cleanly with the hub on reconnect - owning everything from identity federation and degraded auth to data reconciliation, config-drift automation, and DDIL reliability testing. You’ll also anchor the sub-team, setting technical direction and mentoring ICs. This role requires a strong software background (Go/Rust/Python), distributed-systems fundamentals, cloud architecture depth (GCP preferred), comfort at the edge, and demonstrated ownership of a reliability/SRE or platform-engineering charter.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Identity federation & degraded auth - extend centralized Keycloak/LDAP identity to disconnected edge; cached-credential authentication when the hub is unreachable; propagate RBAC-by-operation/group to spokes.
• Data reconciliation & state consistency - own the cloudedge data-refresh contract: DSB migration, entity-persist service, CoTv2 bilateral consistency, un-egress republishing cache.
• Config / architecture drift - automate propagation of cloud-architecture changes (DSB, NCC hub-spoke, DNS) to every edge NixOS closure so spokes never silently fall out of parity.
• DDIL reliability mandate - define and test failover/reconnect behavior against the High-Availability / DDIL ConOps
• Set the technical direction for the sub-team; mentor and receive the support IC.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret / SCI Clearance
• Software background is mandatory
• Strong in a systems language (Go/Rust/Python), distributed-systems fundamentals (consensus, conflict resolution, eventual consistency).
• Cloud architecture depth (GCP preferred - VPC, IdP, networking) and comfort at the edge (on-prem, bare-metal deployments).
• Willing to travel as needed

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated ownership of a reliability/SRE or platform-engineering charter.

US Salary Range

$191,000—$253,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril’s total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.