Staff Software Engineer

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Equity grants

Job summary

Anduril Industries, Inc. is looking for a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle to build innovative software solutions for military applications. This role requires at least 10 years of experience in diverse programming languages such as Go and Python, and involves significant data processing.

The successful candidate will work within a collaborative team to deliver critical capabilities, ensuring high-quality software that impacts national security. Benefits include a comprehensive package and competitive salary ranging from $220,000 to $292,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.
• Strong engineering background from industry or school.
• At least 10+ years working with various programming languages.
• Experience with software solutions involving data processing.

Responsibilities

• Own software solutions deployed to customers.
• Deliver well-architected systems using modern practices.
• Drive software solutions end-to-end, working closely with users.
• Collaborate to plan, build, and test cross-functional functionality.

Skills

Programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust)

Data processing and analysis

Understanding complex systems

Networking knowledge

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Mathematics, or Physics

Tools

AWS

Azure

CICD systems

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Connected Warfare

Seattle, Washington, 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

The Connected Warfare division’s Mission Command team builds, deploys, integrates, extends, and scales Anduril's software and hardware to deliver mission‑critical capabilities to our customers. As the software engineers closest to Anduril customers and end‑users, Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end‑to‑end delivery of winning capabilities such as Lattice Mesh, Joint All Domain Command & Control, and Anduril’s Menace Family‑of‑Systems.

As a Software Engineer on the Mission Command team, you will build the foundation for a first‑of‑its‑kind platform designed for the tactical edge, solving novel problems across networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and next‑generation distributed data layers. Powering resilient, machine‑speed decision‑making for warfighters and allies—even in contested, disconnected environments—your work will ensure Anduril’s products seamlessly work together and with third parties to deliver customer value. Driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset, the Mission Command team balances intentional, long‑term system design with the pragmatic tradeoffs needed to meet immediate customer needs. By keeping the mission top‑of‑mind, you will make sound, scalable engineering decisions to deliver high‑quality, expedient software that preemptively addresses the national security challenges of the future.

What You’ll Do

• Own software solutions spanning core mesh platforms, data interfaces, and release management deployed directly to customers to scale critical mission capabilities.
• Deliver well‑architected systems using modern software engineering practices—including code and design reviews—while championing scalability, reliability, testability, portability, and maintainability.
• Drive software solutions end‑to‑end, partnering closely with end‑users to translate complex needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex, cross‑functional functionality.
• Ensure system health and rapid resolution by creating and analyzing monitoring metrics, triaging production issues, root‑causing failures, and coordinating next steps.
• Travel 10% – 30% of the time to meet customers wherever in the world they are, collaborate with teammates across the globe, understand real‑world operating conditions, and build, test, and deploy capabilities directly in the field.

Required Qualifications

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Mathematics, or Physics.
• At least 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, etc.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real‑world impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with and designing distributed systems.
• Proven ability to deliver high‑quality results at pace, ideally within a startup or high‑growth environment.
• Deep networking experience, especially for distributed systems operating in non‑standard networking conditions.
• Familiarity with industry standard cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and software infrastructure fundamentals (networking, security, distributed systems).
• A deep, demonstrated understanding of how computers and networks work, from a single desktop to a multi‑cluster cloud node.
• Professional software development lifecycle experience using tools such as version control, CICD systems, etc.
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices.

Salary Range

$220,000 – $292,000 USD (base salary only; actual offer may vary based on experience and other factors).

Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees, including health, recovery, and other support. Additionally, highly competitive equity grants are included in most full‑time offers.

Equal Employment Opportunity

As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.