Anduril Industries is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to design, improve, and maintain the core package set that supports software distribution across the company, aiming to streamline development, hosted services, and embedded devices through advanced tooling and standards.
Requirements
- Proficiency with Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS, and functional programming generally
- Deep understanding of how build systems and packaging ecosystems work
- Ability to dive into large and complicated systems, and use Nix to improve them
- Experience with one or more of the following languages: Rust, C++, Go, Python, Haskell
- Experience with managing cloud computing resources (eg: AWS)
- Experience with modern build and deployment tooling, and continuous integration (e.g. NixOS, Terraform)
- Experience designing complex software systems, and iterating upon designs via a technical design review process
Responsibilities
- Maintain an internal package set in order to enable software distribution across the company for development, hosted services, and embedded devices
- Package open-source and proprietary software components using Nix
- Improve developer ergonomics by defining Nix usage standards, creating tooling support, and integrating with developer workflows
- Provide assistance, training, and mentorship to other team members
- Design, improve, and maintain the core package set which supports software distribution throughout Anduril
- Creating internal tooling, establishing standards, planning architectural changes, and supporting users of the package set
- Provide expertise for the usage of Nix at a large scale and assist in training other engineers
Other
- U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
- Capable of operating autonomously with limited oversight in a complex environment
- Ability to break down intricate problems into simple solutions
- A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration
- Passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact
