Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure

Anduril-1; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an Observability-focused Software Engineer to design and operate its production telemetry systems for ground and cloud environments. You will build SDKs for metrics, logging, and tracing, and develop real-time data pipelines that connect environments with centralized monitoring infrastructure.

You will collaborate with the Robotics Data Foundation and Fleet Management teams to ensure telemetry and monitoring are first-class primitives across products.

Qualifications

• Build and operate a robust, high-availability core observability plane.
• Design developer-facing SDKs and tooling for instrumenting mission-critical services.
• Engage with internal customers to understand needs and improve systems.
• Enable metrics-driven engineering and seamless investigation of production incidents.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate production telemetry systems for ground and cloud nodes.
• Design SDKs for metrics aggregation, structured logging, and tracing.
• Build real-time data pipelines connecting environments with core Observability systems.
• Collaborate with Robotics Data Foundation & Fleet Management teams to ensure monitoring is a core primitive.

Skills

Observability systems design

Go

Rust

C++

Python

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS / GCP / Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

ClickHouse/ClickStack

Job description

Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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 products are designed to operate in high stakes environments, in some cases with life-or-death consequences for success or failure. As such, it is critical that Anduril services are reliable and maintainable. This means that all services & infrastructure across the fleet need to be able to be observed & monitored so that our users can trust in their ability to perform their expected functions. The Observability team builds and operates Anduril’s production telemetry plane, aggregating signals from the edge to cloud on our core ground systems & Kubernetes infrastructure.

ABOUT THE JOB

As an engineer on the Observability team, you will build & operate Anduril’s production telemetry systems for ground & cloud nodes. This includes designing & implementing core developer SDKs for metrics aggregation, structured logging, and tracing, building the real-time data pipelines to connect environments with our core Observability systems, and operate/manage our central monitoring and alerting infrastructure. You’ll also build for both cloud-connected as well as off-line/airgapped environments - and ensure a seamless user experience transitioning between both. You’ll also collaborate closely with the Robotics Data Foundation & Fleet Management teams (which own our vehicle telemetry infrastructure as well as our software delivery plane for edge systems) to ensure that monitoring and alerting are first-class primitives supported in both of those products.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Build & operate a robust, high-availability core observability plane — We run Anduril’s centralized observability system for 100s of environments. Engineering teams depend on these systems daily to remain operationally responsible systems - these systems must gracefully scale to meet demand and meet strict uptime requirements.
• Design developer-facing SDKs & tooling for instrumenting mission-critical services — We build the libraries & tooling that make correct, ergonomic instrumentation the default across a heterogeneous fleet of services & languages/frameworks (predominantly Go, Rust, C++, and Python).
• Eagerly engage with our customers — We partner closely with engineering teams to understand their needs, gaps of our systems, and proactively engage with them so that our systems continually improve. We actively work to close gaps early on, and maintain a close working relationship with internal customers.
• Enable metrics-driven engineering and seamless investigation of production incidents — the ultimate mandate of the Observability team is to enable our organization to make data-driven decisions in real-time. This also extends to providing the substrate for agentic workflows for root-cause analysis, and enabling users to synthesize information across services and environments when triaging and actioning issues.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 3+ years of experience in Software Engineering, plus a bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Familiarity with common container orchestration systems and cloud infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, experience developing and deploying systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure). Experience with infrastructure components of the observability stack is a plus (ClickHouse/ClickStack, Victoria Metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc).
• Experience building and operating systems written in Go, C++, Rust, or Java (the team primarily uses Go)
• Experience serving as part of an on-call rotation to support high-availability systems
• User-focused engineering mindset - ability to translate user needs into technical solutions while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
• Exposure to / experience with FedRAMP compliance and/or deployment into government cloud provider enclaves (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government regions) is a plus
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

US Salary Range

$166,000 - $220,000 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:

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 .