March 25, 2026 Melissa Kashouh

Anduril Industries – Senior Software Engineer, Security Applications & Tools

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● TALENT ONE MARKET INTELLIGENCE: ANDURIL INDUSTRIES

🔥 TALENT LIQUIDITY:
High demand for engineers who can bridge the gap between security compliance and high-velocity engineering. Supply is constrained by the need for both deep security knowledge and distributed systems expertise.

📈 ALPHA SIGNAL:
This role puts you at the center of the defense-tech stack. By securing the OS that powers autonomous systems, you are building a career moat that is recession-proof; your mortgage is backed by the necessity of national security infrastructure.

EST. COMPENSATION
$200k – $260k Base + Equity + Performance Bonuses
SECTOR HEAT
86.8/100
CANDIDATE PROTOCOL: Do not lead with generic security certifications. Lead with your experience building distributed systems that handle high-throughput event data. Your moat is your ability to build security tools that don’t slow down the CI/CD pipeline.

Official Role Description: Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Team Overview

The Security Applications & Tools (SAT) team within Lattice Platform Security builds custom software systems that detect, manage, and remediate vulnerabilities across Anduril’s product ecosystem at scale. We don’t just deploy scanners — we design and build distributed scanning infrastructure, policy enforcement engines, and vulnerability management platforms from the ground up. Our stack includes event-driven architectures on AWS, custom Go services, policy-as-code systems, and integrations that span CI pipelines to production environments.

Job Description

We’re looking for a senior software engineer to design and build the systems that keep Anduril’s software secure. This is a software engineering role first — you’ll architect distributed systems, write production Go and Python, build APIs, and operate services at scale. The domain is security, but the work is building real software: custom scanning orchestration pipelines, policy engines that evaluate thousands of configurations against security rules, and data systems that track vulnerabilities across an entire product ecosystem. If you want to write code that solves hard engineering problems in the security space rather than configure off-the-shelf tools, this is the role.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and build distributed services for vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, and remediation workflows
  • Develop and extend the team’s scanning orchestration platform — an event-driven architecture built on AWS (SQS, Lambda, S3, ECR) that processes scan events at org-wide scale
  • Build and maintain policy-as-code systems that programmatically enforce security policy in CI/CD pipelines and deployment configurations
  • Design APIs and CLIs that integrate security tooling into developer workflows without creating friction
  • Develop data pipelines that aggregate, normalize, and route findings from multiple scanning engines into vulnerability management systems
  • Collaborate with engineering teams across Anduril to understand their security needs and build tooling that addresses them
  • Evaluate third-party security tools and build custom integrations or replacements where needed
  • Participate in on-call rotation for security tooling infrastructure

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience designing and developing production software systems
  • Strong proficiency in Go — this is the team’s primary language for backend services
  • Experience building distributed systems or data pipelines (event-driven architectures, message queues, APIs, worker systems)
  • Proficiency with Python for scripting, automation, and tooling
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred: Lambda, SQS, S3, ECR, or equivalent)
  • Ability to read and understand security tool output (vulnerability reports, SBOMs, static analysis results) and build systems around it
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work across teams
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with CI/CD systems (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) and building integrations for developer workflows
  • Familiarity with container security concepts, SBOM generation tools (Syft), and vulnerability scanners (Trivy, Grype, Semgrep)
  • Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code
  • Experience with policy-as-code frameworks (OPA/Rego, Conftest)
  • Background in application security or product security engineering
  • Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Familiarity with Nix build systems
US Salary Range
$191,000$253,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril’s total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: 

Healthcare Benefits 

  • US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you. 
  • UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents. 
  • IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents. 

Additional Benefits 

  • Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees. 
  • Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs. 
  • Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting. 
  • Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available. 
  • Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development 
  • Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region. 
  • Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility. 

Retirement Savings Plan 

  • US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options. 
  • UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match. 
  • AUS Roles: Superannuation plan. 

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process. 

 

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To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:

  • No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.

  • Please always verify communications:
    • Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
    • Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency’s authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com
  • Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender’s email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.

  • What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.

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To view Anduril’s candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/. 

Melissa Kashouh

Founder of Talent One I help enterprise leaders and investors forecast hiring surges, talent shortages, and market friction up to six weeks in advance using our patent-pending predictive intelligence platform. As the founder of Talent One AI (the intelligence layer of The Talent One), I built a system that turns lagging recruiting data into actionable foresight — helping companies reduce technical debt, protect employer brand, and hire ahead of the curve. Based in Providence, Rhode Island.
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