# Senior Software Engineer, Satellite Command and Control

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Colorado Springs, Colorado
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $165,000-$218,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defence technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Space Ground Software, you will own the architecture, delivery, and operation of the command-and-control software that flies real space missions , the ground-side services that plan missions, command spacecraft, ingest and serve telemetry, drive antennas and ground stations, and keep deployed satellite systems running in production.

## Responsibilities

- Own the architecture of Space C2 services and the software solutions deployed to customers, end-to-end , from API/proto design through deployment to production operation

- Design, build, and operate backend services across the Space C2 stack (Go, gRPC/Protobuf): command & telemetry, mission and plan management, ground-station and antenna brokering, space-to-ground protocol stacks, file transfer, and access control

- Write and evolve protobuf API contracts, coordinating interface changes across teams

- Drive technical RFCs and architecture decisions for new subsystem capabilities

- Deploy and run services in secure government cloud on containers/Kubernetes, own operational readiness, and lead on-call and incident response for live missions

- Integrate with spacecraft and ground infrastructure , software-defined radios, antenna pointing, ground-station providers, space-to-ground data links, and astrodynamics (orbit propagation, maneuver planning, satellite state)

- Build and run software-in-the-loop (SITL) simulation to validate end-to-end operations before live passes

- Integrate with legacy systems to unlock 21st-century capabilities

- Set the quality bar through rigorous code review, and mentor other engineers , code review is a core, first-class part of the job on this team

- Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality

- Create and analyse metrics for debugging and monitoring; triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps

- Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints

## Requirements

- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics

- 8+ years building backend and distributed systems, primarily in a systems language (Go, Rust, or C++), with networked services using gRPC/Protobuf , and comfortable working primarily in Go

- Proven experience architecting, shipping, and operating production services on containers/Kubernetes, with real CI/CD and cloud deployment

- Experience integrating software with physical systems , hardware control, embedded interfaces, protocol implementation, or real-time data pipelines

- Track record of owning production services end-to-end (design through operations) and a demonstrated ability to raise the engineering bar for others

- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements, and to solve complex technical problems with little oversight

- Strong collaboration and code-review discipline, with clear communication, documentation/training habits, and a track record of mentoring

- A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- gRPC/Protobuf
- Kubernetes
- containers
- backend services
- distributed systems
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- Mathematics
- Physics

### Nice to have
- space/aerospace domain experience
- telemetry & commanding
- ground stations and antenna systems
- RF/waveform/link-layer
- orbital mechanics
- GNC
- CCSDS protocols
- binary protocol parsing
- software-defined radios
- RF modems
- satellite communication equipment
- deployment and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- government cloud
- observability/metrics
- Nix-based build systems
- reproducible/hermetic build toolchains
- time systems
- coordinate frames
- space-related simulation
- hardware-in-the-loop integration

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