Senior Space Ground C2 Software Engineer

XYZ Venture Capital; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Space Ground Software. You will own the ground software architecture for missions, plan and command spacecraft, ingest telemetry, and manage ground-station integration using Go, gRPC, and Kubernetes in secure environments.

You will collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and ensure operational readiness for live missions with rigorous code reviews and robust observability.

Qualifications

• Engineering background in CS/Software Engineering/Math/Physics.
• 8+ years building backend and distributed systems with Go, Rust, or C++.
• Experience shipping production services on containers/Kubernetes with CI/CD.
• Experience integrating software with hardware controls or real-time data pipelines.
• Strong collaboration, mentoring, and code-review skills.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a US Top Secret SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of Space C2 services and end-to-end software solutions.
• Design and operate backend services across the Space C2 stack using Go and gRPC.
• Write protobuf APIs and drive architecture RFCs and decisions.
• Deploy and run services in government cloud with containers and Kubernetes; lead on-call.
• Integrate with spacecraft and ground infrastructure and perform SITL testing.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

gRPC/Protobuf

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Education

Engineering background in CS/Software Engineering/Math/Physics

Tools

Nix

Helm

Terraform

Azure Gov

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Space Ground Software. You will own the ground software architecture for missions, plan and command spacecraft, ingest telemetry, and manage ground-station integration using Go, gRPC, and Kubernetes in secure environments.

You will collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and ensure operational readiness for live missions with rigorous code reviews and robust observability.