Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering role sits at the intersection of software engineering, reliability engineering, and applied AI. The successful candidate will lead a software engineering team responsible for building, shipping, and operating production software that integrates AI and software engineering.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a software engineering team and set the team's roadmap across feature delivery, reliability investments, AI-enabled capabilities, and operational improvements.
• Manage, coach, and develop software engineers and tech leads, including goal setting, performance management, hiring, and succession planning.
• Partner with product, AI engineering, platform, infrastructure, and downstream stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and delivery commitments.
• Establish and reinforce engineering norms around design review, code review, testing, release management, on-call, incident response, and production ownership.
• Drive reliability and operational excellence across the team's services, including service ownership, observability, release confidence, and preventative work.
• Raise the bar on how the team applies AI to its own engineering work, including effective use of AI coding assistants, agentic automation, and evaluation-driven development of AI-enabled features.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, reliability engineering, or closely related disciplines, including at least 2 years of direct people management of software engineers.
• Demonstrated success managing an engineering team that owned production systems end to end, including delivery, reliability, and on-call responsibility.
• Strong technical fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and cloud or platform infrastructure.
• Practical experience with AI-enabled software systems and AI-accelerated engineering workflows.
• Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and development of engineers and tech leads.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading teams that combine software engineering with site reliability engineering, production engineering, or quality engineering responsibilities under a single charter.
• Experience operationalizing AI-enabled systems in production.
• Experience improving release cadence, test strategy, observability, and on-call health for teams carrying meaningful operational load.

The salary range for this role is $220,000-$292,000 USD per year. Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive health, recovery, and wellness programs.