Staff Software Engineer, Anduril Industries

• 12+ years of experience in a software engineering role building products in fast-paced environments
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams - drive architectural consensus, build alignment, and lead technical initiatives beyond a single team
• Experience working with large enterprise applications and platforms with high availability requirements
• Strong full-stack capabilities with expertise in modern web technologies - JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and web frameworks (Next.js, Remix, etc.)
• User-focused engineering mindset - ability to translate user needs into technical solutions while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
• Excellent communication skills, able to influence stakeholders, translate ambiguous requirements and build cross-team alignment
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

Desirable

• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our QualityOS team within Forge MES (Manufacturing Execution System)
• As a Staff Engineer, you will set the technical direction and architectural standards
• You'll architect and implement mission-critical distributed systems that scale Anduril's manufacturing operations while maintaining the technical bar for reliability, performance, and maintainability
• Your impact will span beyond the immediate team
• You'll serve as a technical bridge between the QualityOS product team and our Platform/Foundations organization, ensuring we build on solid infrastructure while influencing platform capabilities to meet manufacturing needs
• You'll represent the quality domain in broader MES architectural decisions, contributing to technical strategy that affects multiple product teams
• We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong collaborative instincts—someone who can dive into complex distributed systems, establish patterns that others follow, and drive consensus across engineering teams
• You'll balance hands-on technical execution on critical features with raising the technical standards of the team through architecture reviews, code quality, and operational excellence
• Your decisions will have lasting impact on how Anduril scales manufacturing quality systems into a next-generation defense company
• Technical Architecture & Execution:
• Define and drive technical architecture for QualityOS - make decisions on system design, scalability patterns, integration strategies, and platform vs. build tradeoffs that shape team execution
• Architect and implement complex distributed systems - build mission-critical services, APIs, and tooling that enable safe, fast delivery across manufacturing quality workflows
• Lead by example with engineering excellence - establish patterns through hands-on work: comprehensive testing, deployment safety (blue/green/canary), infrastructure as code, observability, and operational rigor
• Cross-Team Influence & Collaboration:
• Bridge product and platform teams - collaborate with Platform/Foundations to shape shared infrastructure based on QualityOS needs while driving adoption of platform capabilities
• Partner across MES product teams - integrate QualityOS into cohesive manufacturing experiences, evolve data models across quality/production domains, and drive technical consensus on cross-cutting concerns
• Represent quality domain technically - work with architecture, security, operations, and infrastructure teams to ensure quality requirements influence broader technical decisions
• Team & Technical Standards:
• Raise the technical bar for the team - through rigorous code review, architecture discussions, establishing shared ownership models, and improving practices that balance velocity with correctness
• Remove friction and unblock execution - identify systemic technical issues, eliminate single points of failure, and create leverage through automation and improved tooling