Software Engineer (Network), Intelligence Systems

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 a lead provider of highly specialized engineering products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements and shape concepts of operation. We design, develop, and deliver exquisite capability across their mission set using commercially available and custom hardware and software. We provide critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements. ABOUT THE JOB We are looking for a Software Engineer with experience developing networked applications to join our rapidly growing team in Reston, Virginia. In this role you will be responsible for developing software across projects that may range from full-stack enterprise software to user-facing software on embedded and custom hardware devices on projects that may include the need to design, develop, test, and deploy systems that use commercial and custom networking and cloud technologies with a core focus on security. This role may include architecting, testing, securing, and interfacing with commercial internet transport layer and storage services, cloud services, VPN (commercial, WireGuard, etc.) and similar technologies. You may be building systems that can autodeploy, maintain, repair, and clean-up after themselves. Experience building and developing software with a strong understanding of modern internet protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, TLS, etc.) and analyzing network capture and analysis (PCAP and Zeek data) data. Other elements of the role may include porting and refactoring code bases between languages, performance tuning, integrating encryption systems, designing software architectures, front-end and back-end development, and other software development and engineering tasks as needed. You will need to work within tight timelines and resource constraints. WHAT YOU’LL DO Work directly with project managers to write software for full-stack software and user-facing software. Work with existing teams to maintain and update existing software systems. Demonstrate the ability to learn new software and networking technologies quickly. Provide software designs, estimates, and schedules as needed to program and project management. Develop network data transport technologies and pipelines; build with custom and commercial components including cloud architectural components. Develop network capture, testing, and analysis systems to verify and validate security assumptions – work with test engineers to build repeatable testing plans. Adhere to software best practices and coding standards, perform code reviews, interact with revision control, build processes, and testing. Triage issues and investigate root cause failures. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields. 5+ years of experience in full-stack software development. 3+ years of experience developing networked systems, cloud infrastructure, secure communication systems, or similar. Experience working in constrained development environments, including air-gapped systems. Strong skills in C, C++, Python, and C#. Experience implementing well documented network and communication protocols, cryptographic systems, or similar. Abil