Senior Security Engineer, Identity

Anduril Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Security Engineer focusing on Identity and Access Management to build and maintain defensive controls for our defense technology platforms.

You will design and implement an identity engine, integrate IdPs and cloud services, and automate lifecycle operations across the company while collaborating with IAM and partner teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong programming ability in one or more general purpose languages (Go, Rust).
• Experience with infrastructure as code languages (Terraform, AWS CDK) in production.
• Experience with identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, OAuth) or identity providers (Okta, Azure AD).
• Ability to translate system design requirements into clean, maintainable implementations.
• Experience leading or contributing to architecture and design reviews.
• Experience with cloud platforms and deploying applications through CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of projects, and collaborate across teams.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build an identity engine that powers the whole company and security program.
• Create applications that enable and enforce our identity framework across the company.
• Develop integrations that unify identities across IdPs, cloud providers, SaaS tools, and internal systems.
• Automate identity lifecycle operations: provisioning, access reviews, offboarding.
• Collaborate with other IAM engineers and partner teams to define architecture and ship iteratively.

Skills

Go

Rust

Terraform

AWS CDK

SAML

OIDC

SCIM

OAuth

architecture reviews

cloud platforms

CI/CD

autonomy

ownership

TS clearance

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

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's Security Engineering team is looking for a Security Engineer to focus on Identity and Access Management and build and maintain world class defensive controls to protect the systems we use to build our advanced defense technology products.

What You'll Do

• Build an identity engine that powers the whole company and supercharges our security program
• Create applications that enable and enforce our identity framework across the company
• Develop integrations that unify identities across IdPs, cloud providers, SaaS tools, and internal systems
• Automate identity lifecycle operations: provisioning, access reviews, offboarding
• Collaborate with other IAM engineers and partner teams to define architecture and ship iteratively

Required Qualifications

• Strong programming ability in one or more general purpose languages (Go, Rust, etc)
• Experience with one or more infrastructure as code languages (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK) in a production capacity
• Experience with identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, OAuth) or identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, etc.)
• Proven ability to translate system design requirements into clean, maintainable implementations
• Experience leading or contributing to architecture and design reviews
• Experience working with cloud platforms and deploying applications through CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of projects, and collaborate across teams
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked in environments with complex identity or access issues, troubleshooting across distributed systems
• Familiarity with RBAC, ABAC, or policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., OPA, Cedar)
• Experience building bespoke solutions in high-growth and high-complexity environments
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP ecosystems and tooling

US Salary Range

$166,000—$220,000 USD

Benefits

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: 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.

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