Senior Cloud Software Engineer

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Anduril Industries

Reston, Virginia, United States

On-site

Posted April 23, 2026

Job Description

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 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

Anduril is seeking a senior engineer with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud experience to build and maintain resilient infrastructure supporting deployment of mission-critical software across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Design, deploy, and operate mission-critical commercial cloud infrastructure that is highly available, resilient, and scalable, with restrictions on some cloud-managed services
Develop and maintain tooling infrastructure to build and support deployments to the cloud and on-prem
Troubleshoot and remediate complex issues across Linux-based infrastructure
Collaborate with software development teams to optimize containerized application deployments (RKE2)
Monitor and remediate security weaknesses and baseline regressions across infrastructure
Serve as a subject matter expert for teams across Anduril looking to leverage Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Strong engineering background from industry or school with 3 - 7+ years of experience with Go, Python, Java, or other common object-oriented languages
Solid understanding and practical experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
Strong understanding of networking concepts in a cloud environment (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups)
Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills
Deep experience with architecting and securing cloud infrastructure in deployed/production environment

Highly proficient in multiple modern cloud providers (preferably GCP or AWS)
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (preferably Terraform)

Ability to decompose abstract program goals into achievable technical objectives and strategies for measuring progress
Experience leading and mentoring teams of engineers and working cross-functionally across partner teams
Possess a desire to work on critical mission software that has a real-world impact
Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Working experience in DevOps, Security Engineering, and/or SRE roles
Strong Kubernetes is preferred

Extensive experience with SRE principles and practices in Kubernetes environments
Extensive experience across one or more managed Kubernetes offerings (Rancher, Anthos, etc.)
Experience with hardening and monitoring Kubernetes clusters

Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver)
Experience with advanced cloud security principles and practices

US Salary Range

$191,000—

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