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# Software Engineer, Front End

- **Company:** Anduril Industries
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $166,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Web Interfaces, Amazon Web Services, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Protocol Buffers, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Git, Vue.js, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9099213/software-engineer-front-end

## About the Role

* Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
 * At least 2-5+ years of professional experience with TypeScript; experience with Go and Python is preferred. (We encourage all levels to apply)
 * Experience building and shipping user-facing web interfaces (e.g., React, Vue, or similar modern frontend frameworks)
 * Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of distributed systems and high-throughput data pipelines
 * Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
 * Strong debugging skills, with the ability to isolate and resolve issues across distributed, multi-service systems
 * Strong testing discipline (unit, integration) and experience working with CI/CD pipelines
 * Strong Git skills (branching, rebasing, resolving conflicts) - we move fast and ship continuously
 * A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
 * Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance, * At least 2-5+ years of experience working in Linux environments
 * Experience with Kubernetes (k8s)
 * Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or similar
 * Experience with Protocol Buffers and gRPC

## Description

The Mission Software Engineering team builds, deploys, integrates, extends, and scales Anduril's software to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers. As the software engineers closest to Anduril customers and end-users, Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities such as Counter Intrusion, Joint All Domain Command & Control, and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
ABOUT THE JOB

As a Software Engineeron the Mission Software Engineering team, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a "Whatever It Takes" mindset-executing in an expedient , scalable , and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

 * Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
 * Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
 * Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
 * Build and analyze metrics and dashboards to debug and monitor production systems
 * Triage issues, root cause failures, and drive resolution across teams
 * Write and maintain tests, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ship safely and quickly
 * Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
 * Limited travel required, * Customer Facing - Mission Software Engineers are the software engineers closest to Anduril customers, end-users, and the technical challenges of operational scenarios.
 * Mission First - Above all, MSEs execute their mission in an expedient , scalable , and pragmatic way. They keep the mission top-of-mind and make pragmatic and thoughtful engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes.
 * Small Project Wrangling = Large Project Impact - Our MSEs are the voice of our business line(s). They are the forcing function that gets us to think about how a project will transition to production and tie in to the centralized functions across the business.
 * Embrace Challenge (and follow through) - We take responsibility for achieving the mission; Developing technical self-sufficiency across a wide range of environments. Ruthlessly prioritizing, while honing our ability to understand large systems and incorporate new components in varying levels of complexity., 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.


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