Dev Infra Software Engineer, Air Defense
Job Location:
Irvine, CA - USA
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Job Summary
THE TEAM
The Air Defense DevInfra team builds and operates the software infrastructure the Air Defense program runs on. Our engineers are talented and hard-working motivated to see their work rapidly deployed on the front lines we support the systems that ship to the Southern border Iraq Ukraine and more.
We own developer productivity build and release tooling and the cloud infrastructure beneath it the systems that let other engineers ship faster with fewer surprises and with the evidence their programs require. Work ranges from backend services and data pipelines to CI/CD reproducible builds container security tooling and AWS (GovCloud and commercial) infrastructure. Our customers are other Anduril engineers release engineering and defense program stakeholders.
YOU SHOULD APPLY IF YOU:
- Have experience building backend software or developer tooling that real users depend on and want to grow that experience on a DevInfra team supporting a high-stakes defense program.
- Want to own meaningful pieces of shipped work backend services pipelines tooling and infrastructure alongside senior engineers who will give you feedback and context.
- Love building platform and infrastructure tooling that enables other software engineers to scale their output.
- Enjoy working end-to-end on a problem: writing the Go/Python service standing up the AWS infrastructure via Terraform wiring it into CI and debugging it when it misbehaves in production.
- Are curious about the layers you havent touched yet and ready to learn them on the job.
- Are a U.S. Person because of required access to U.S. export controlled information and are eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
NICE TO HAVE
- At least 3 years working with a variety of programming languages such as Rust Go C Java Python JavaScript/TypeScript etc.
- Professional software development lifecycle experience using tools such as version control CI/CD systems etc.
- Experience building backend software systems with various data storage and processing requirements.
- Experience with industry-standard cloud platforms (AWS Azure) CI/CD tools and software infrastructure fundamentals (networking security distributed systems).
- Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (e.g. NixOS Terraform).
- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
- Familiarity with industry-standard monitoring and logging tools.
- A bias toward rapid delivery and iteration.
- Youve built or invented something: an app a website a game a startup.
- Previous experience working in an engineering setting: a startup (or startup-like environment) engineering school etc. If youve succeeded in a low-structure high-autonomy environment youll succeed here.
- Exposure to containers SBOM tooling or vulnerability scanning (Syft Grype Trivy).
- Prior work on a platform devinfra SRE or developer-productivity team.
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 Andurils 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 youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.
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