Senior Mission Data Platform Engineer
AI summary of the role
Design, build, and operate the foundational data infrastructure for Anduril's Air Defense team, enabling analytics engineers and data scientists to build high-impact analyses and data-driven applications.
What you’ll do
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of a scalable, self-service data platform for analytics and data applications.
- Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD best practices.
- Partner with analytics engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to provide robust tooling and seamless developer experience.
- Implement SRE principles to ensure high availability, performance, and observability, including SLOs and incident response.
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years in data platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.
- Active U.S. DoD Secret Clearance or higher and experience in air-gapped/classified environments.
- Hands-on experience with modern data stack components (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Trino, dbt, Kafka, Spark).
- Extensive experience with Terraform and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Technologies
Terraform · Docker · Kubernetes · Apache Iceberg · Trino · dbt · Apache Kafka · Apache Spark · AWS · Datadog · Grafana · Python
About Anduril
Builds autonomous defense systems (drones, subs, sensors) unified by Lattice OS, an AI command-and-control layer sold to US/allied militaries.
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Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide. ABOUT THE JOB We are seeking a Senior Mission Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the foundational data infrastructure that empowers our analytics and engineering teams. In this role, you will be the architect of a scalable, reliable, and easy-to-use platform that enables analytics engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to build
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. ABOUT THE TEAM We build robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense (AD) Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging [... source excerpt omitted ...] seeking a Senior Mission Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the foundational data infrastructure that empowers our analytics and engineering teams. In this role, you will be the architect of a scalable, reliable, and easy-to-use platform that enables analytics engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to build high-impact analyses and data-driven applications. You will combine deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and modern data systems to create a cohesive ecosystem. Applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles will be key to ensuring the performance and availability of these critical systems, which operate in both commercial clou [... source excerpt omitted ...] ganization. Your ability to deploy and maintain these mission-critical solutions will be essential, with occasional travel required for real-world implementation and support. Key Responsibilities: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of a scalable, self-service data platform that serves as the foundation for analytics and data applications across the organization. Architect and manage the underlying cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD best practices to support the data platform. Partner with and empower platform users—including analytics engineers, data scientists, and software engineers—by provid
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