# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Irvine, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. As a Software Engineering Lead on the Air Defense Engineering Team, you’ll own efforts to ensure that the Air Defense Software Team is operating effectively and efficiently.

## Responsibilities

- Lead software sprints and drive release readiness while maintaining code quality across multiple sprint teams within the division.

- Manage the development and deployment of major, minor, and patch releases for multiple products and programs.

- Mentor a small team of engineers to foster strong development processes and practices as well as scale future leaders.

- Collaborate with internal team members and external partners to build technologies and processes which enable users to safely and rapidly develop and deploy autonomous systems.

- Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team software projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives.

- Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams and more broadly across departments.

- Drive, track, and communicate the progress of technical deliverables for the team or group’s key programs.

- Help to define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team while working with partner engineering teams to ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood.

- Identify and resolve systemic execution issues across the team or group that require broader initiatives to resolve.

- Identify, resolve, escalate key cross team dependencies.

## Core Requirements

- Strong engineering background preferably as a Software Engineer and/or Lead/Manager.

- Experience with multiple programming languages such as C++, Rust, Python, and Golang.

- Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks.

- Extensive experience with Agile methods and tools such as Jira and Confluence.

- Ability to own, track, and drive execution of sprints and Jira boards.

- Strong process and organization skills.

- Strong written / verbal communication skills.

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

- Must be able to travel up to 30-50% of the time.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in building programs for software deliverables from ground up.

- Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.

- Experience is rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.

- Experience with creating communication plans for various levels of stakeholders.

- Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.

## Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Rust
- Python
- Golang
- Agile methods
- Jira
- Confluence

### Nice to have
- building programs from ground up
- organizational process changes
- communication plans
- data analysis

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