Senior Engineer, Edge-Cloud Reliability
Job Location:
Reston, VA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements shape their concepts of operation and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers most pressing national security requirements.
ABOUT THE JOB
As Senior Engineer Edge-Cloud Reliability youll own a net-new architecturally critical function: the hub-and-spoke contract between the cloud and our on-prem failover edge nodes. Youll ensure on-prem nodes mirror cloud architecture at small scale keep operating through Degraded Disconnected Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) conditions and reconcile cleanly with the hub on reconnect - owning everything from identity federation and degraded auth to data reconciliation config-drift automation and DDIL reliability testing. Youll also anchor the sub-team setting technical direction and mentoring ICs. This role requires a strong software background (Go/Rust/Python) distributed-systems fundamentals cloud architecture depth (GCP preferred) comfort at the edge and demonstrated ownership of a reliability/SRE or platform-engineering charter.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Identity federation & degraded auth - extend centralized Keycloak/LDAP identity to disconnected edge; cached-credential authentication when the hub is unreachable; propagate RBAC-by-operation/group to spokes.
- Data reconciliation & state consistency - own the cloudedge data-refresh contract: DSB migration entity-persist service CoTv2 bilateral consistency un-egress republishing cache.
- Config / architecture drift - automate propagation of cloud-architecture changes (DSB NCC hub-spoke DNS) to every edge NixOS closure so spokes never silently fall out of parity.
- DDIL reliability mandate - define and test failover/reconnect behavior against the High-Availability / DDIL ConOps
- Set the technical direction for the sub-team; mentor and receive the support IC.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret / SCI Clearance
- Software background is mandatory
- Strong in a systems language (Go/Rust/Python) distributed-systems fundamentals (consensus conflict resolution eventual consistency).
- Cloud architecture depth (GCP preferred - VPC IdP networking) and comfort at the edge (on-prem bare-metal deployments).
- Willing to travel as needed
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Demonstrated ownership of a reliability/SRE or platform-engineering charter.
US Salary Range
$191000 - $253000 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 Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
