Anduril Industries
Software Engineer, Satellite Command and Control
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks a Software Engineer to build and operate ground-side command-and-control services for real satellite missions. You'll develop backend services in Go/gRPC that manage mission planning, spacecraft commanding, telemetry ingestion, and ground-station operations while integrating with legacy defense systems and deploying to secure government cloud environments.
What you'll do
- Design and own backend services end-to-end from API design through production deployment and operation
- Build Space C2 stack services including command, telemetry, mission planning, ground-station brokering, and file transfer
- Deploy and maintain containerized services on Kubernetes in secure government cloud with on-call incident response
- Integrate software with spacecraft, radios, antenna systems, and astrodynamics infrastructure
- Develop software-in-the-loop simulations to validate end-to-end operations before live satellite passes
- Conduct rigorous code reviews and collaborate across teams to deliver complex functionality
What they're looking for
- Go, Rust, or C++ backend development
- gRPC and Protocol Buffers
- Kubernetes and container deployment
- Distributed systems design and operation
- Hardware integration and embedded interfaces
- CI/CD and cloud deployment practices
- Real-time data pipelines and monitoring
- Protobuf API contract design
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience building and operating production services on Kubernetes—what challenges did you face and how did you resolve them?
- Tell us about a time you integrated software with physical hardware or real-time systems; what protocols or interfaces did you work with?