Mission Software Engineer
Anduril· Connected Warfare : Mission Command Engineering
Amsterdamfull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Software Engineer on the Mission Command team building and delivering mission-critical capabilities for tactical edge platforms, focusing on networking, autonomy, and distributed data systems to enable real-time, resilient decision-making in contested environments.
Responsibilities
- Own software solutions spanning core mesh platforms, data interfaces, and release management deployed directly to customers to scale critical mission capabilities.
- Deliver well-architected systems using modern software engineering practices—including code and design reviews—while championing scalability, reliability, testability, portability, and maintainability.
- Drive software solutions end-to-end, partnering closely with end-users to translate complex needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
- Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex, cross-functional functionality.
- Ensure system health and rapid resolution by creating and analyzing monitoring metrics, triaging production issues, root-causing failures, and coordinating next steps.
- Travel 10% – 30% of the time to meet customers wherever in the world they are, collaborate with teammates across the globe, understand real-world operating conditions, and build, test, and deploy capabilities directly in the field.
Qualifications
- Currently possesses, or is eligible to obtain and maintain, a Netherlands (AIVD) security screening (Level A or Level B)
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Mathematics, or Physics
- At least 3-10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, etc.
- Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
- A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
Skills
Required:Security and risk awarenessProgrammingSystem designCollaboration
Nice to have:Distributed systemsNetworking
Benefits
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
- Highly competitive equity grants included in most full-time offers
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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