Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Sydney, Australia · Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Dominance - Engineering & Operations

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability at Anduril, a defense technology company. The role focuses on leading the design, development, and support of next-generation software delivery toolchains for autonomous systems, managing modern ICT systems across infrastructure, OS, orchestration, and application layers. Requires experience in senior roles for system delivery with mature software delivery, security, and operations capabilities, and experience with horizontally scaled cloud technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the design, development, implementation and support of next-generation software delivery toolchains that enable the continuous and secure delivery of capabilities orders of magnitude faster than the competition, including in times of national crisis and across multiple national security classification domains
  2. Manage modern ICT systems at the infrastructure layer, including providers and/or technologies such as AWS, Azure, and VMWare ESXi
  3. Manage modern ICT systems at the operating system layer, including operating systems such as NixOS, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Microsoft Windows
  4. Manage modern ICT systems at the orchestration layer, including technologies such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform
  5. Manage modern ICT systems at the application layer, including Github Enterprise, CircleCI and a variety of proprietary applications

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a software and/or hardware system with a mature software delivery, security and operations capability
  • Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
  • Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
  • Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software service, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
  • Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
  • Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience writing cloud-native services using C++, Rust, Python and/or Go
  • Experience with the NixOS operating system and the Nix programming language
  • Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization
  • Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform
  • A strong understanding of networking, particularly in cloud and hybrid environments
  • A strong knowledge of and experience with deploying applications with Kubernetes and maintaining Kubernetes clusters
  • Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Senior Software Engineer, such as Principal Software Engineer and/or Engineering Manager
  • Desire to grow in to a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery

What the JD emphasized

  • continuous and secure delivery
  • national security classification domains
  • modern software development, delivery and sustainment toolchains
  • rapidly architect, design, delivery, support and evolve toolchains