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# Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Rust)

- **Company:** Anduril Industries
- **Location:** Costa Mesa, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Border Gateway Protocol, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Protocol Buffers, Multicasting, Networking Basics, Routing, Packet Analyzer, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Peer-To-Peer (P2P), Prometheus, Socket Programming, Software Engineering, System Programming, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Wireshark, Grafana, Kubernetes, Production Code, Asynchronous Programming
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_647e3e083eb86e5cb0339a84b4e073cd

## About the Role

* 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
 * Proficiency in a systems programming language (Rust, C, C++, or Go)
 * Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/UDP, socket programming, MTU, multicast, TLS/mTLS
 * Experience building or maintaining distributed systems (message buses, RPC frameworks, consensus protocols, or similar)
 * Familiarity with asynchronous programming models (async/await, event loops, futures)
 * Comfort working with Protocol Buffers and/or gRPC
 * Ability to read packet captures and use network debugging tools (tcpdump, Wireshark, etc.)
 * Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance, * Production experience writing Rust
 * Experience with gossip protocols, epidemic broadcast, or peer-to-peer overlay networks
 * Familiarity with link-state routing protocols (OSPF, IS-IS) or inter-domain routing (BGP)
 * Experience with deterministic simulation or property-based testing of distributed systems
 * Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration

## Description

* Design and implement new features for the Distributed Service Bus, including gossip protocols, OSPF-style link-state routing, and flow control mechanisms
 * Build and extend the gRPC proxy layer that enables existing services to communicate transparently over the DSB mesh
 * Debug complex distributed networking issues spanning tactical radios, UDP/TCP transports, and mesh routing - from packet captures on deployed assets to cloud infrastructure
 * Collaborate with product teams across business lines to deploy DSB onto new hardware platforms and support migrations from legacy communication buses
 * Design and implement protocol-level optimizations for bandwidth-constrained RF links, including compression, prefix routing, and priority-based QoS scheduling
 * Write RFCs and technical design documents for new protocol features and API surfaces
 * Build deterministic simulation harnesses that allow the same production code to run in fully reproducible test environments
 * Improve observability through Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and CLI tooling (dsbtool) for live mesh inspection and debugging
 * Contribute to the security posture of the communication layer, including packet signing (ECDSA), FIPS compliance, and end-to-end encryption