# Senior Data Engineer

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Data Engineer on the Analytics Team at Anduril, you will collaborate with stakeholders to design, build, and implement data pipelines and models that enable the company's next-generation technology.

The Analytics space is a key part of the team's DNA, with regular discussions on industry shifts and relevant blogs.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the design and roadmap for the data platform

- Partner with operations, product, and engineering to advocate best practices and build supporting systems and infrastructure for various data needs

- Own the ingest and egress frameworks for data pipelines that integrate multiple data sources to produce valuable data products

- Work with Palantir Foundry, the central hub for data-driven applications, visualizations, and large-scale data analysis

- Utilize SQLMesh for data transformations, allowing engineers to work with SQL while following software engineering best practices

- Query data using Athena, an AWS serverless solution for running analytics directly on the data lake

- Implement Apache Iceberg as the table format, providing advanced data management capabilities

- Use Flyte for orchestration, a highly scalable, Kubernetes-native modern orchestration platform

- Operate in a 'player-coach' capacity, leading team members while remaining hands-on as a contributor

## Requirements

- 3+ years of experience in a data engineering role building products, ideally in a fast-paced environment

- Motivation to work on solving the biggest problems in defence

- Strong foundations in Python or another language

- Experience with Spark, PySpark, SQL, and dbt

- Experience with Enterprise Data Systems like Palantir Foundry

- Experience with or interest in developing data services and data products

- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP security ecosystems, containerization, and associated tooling

- Knowledge of data and visualization tools, such as Tableau

- Understanding of the importance of engineering with security best practices in mind

- Empathetic and eager to see the world from users' perspectives

- Self-starter with a drive to take ownership of and debug complex data transformation pipelines and data models

- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities

## Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Salary range: $166,000-$220,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Spark
- PySpark
- SQL
- dbt
- Palantir Foundry
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Tableau
- Apache Iceberg
- Flyte
- SQLMesh
- Athena

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