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Senior Data Engineer

Anduril· Business Operations : Business Operations : Analytics
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Engineer on the Analytics Team designing, building, and operating data pipelines and models to enable Anduril's next-generation technology and shaping the data platform vision.

Responsibilities

  • - Lead the design and roadmap for our data platform
  • “- Partner with operations, product, and engineering to advocate best practices and build supporting systems and infrastructure for the various data needs
  • “- Own the ingest and egress frameworks for data pipelines that stitch together various data sources in order to produce valuable data products that drive the business
  • “- Palantir Foundry is our central hub for data driven applications, visualizations and large scale data analysis across the Anduril org. We manage a large user base and provide true data self service at scale.
  • “- We use SQLMesh for data transformations, giving our engineers the ability to work with SQL while enjoying software engineering best practices like version control, testing, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
  • “- For querying data, we utilize Athena, an aws serverless solution that allows our team to run analytics directly on our data lake without managing infrastructure.
  • “- We’ve implemented Apache Iceberg as our table format, providing advanced data management capabilities like schema evolution and time travel queries.
  • “- We use Flyte for orchestration. It is a highly scalable, kubernetes native modern orchestration platform similar to Airflow or Dagster.
  • “- Operate in a "player-coach" capacity, leading members of the team, while remaining hands on as a contributor

Qualifications

  • - 3+ years of experience in a data engineering role building products, ideally in a fast-paced environment
  • “- You are motivated by our mission. We are working to solve the biggest problems in defense
  • “- Good foundations in Python or another language
  • “- Experience with Spark, PySpark, SQL and dbt
  • “- Experience with Enterprise Data Systems like Palantir Foundry
  • “- Experience with or interest in learning how to develop data services and data products
  • “- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP security ecosystem, containerization, and associated tooling
  • “- Knowledge of data & visualization tools, such as Tableau
  • “- Understand the importance of engineering with security’s best practices in mind
  • “- You are empathetic: you are eager to see the world from your users’ perspective
  • “- You’re energized by business impact & a self-starter: you love to drive the direction of ambiguous projects
  • “- Drive to take ownership of and debug complex data transformation pipelines and data models
  • “- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Skills

Required:PythonSpark / PySparkSQLdbtPalantir FoundryAWS / Azure / GCP
Nice to have:Tableau

Benefits

  • - Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensuring health, recovery, and whatever comes next
  • “- Highly competitive equity grants and total compensation package
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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