Data Engineer, Infrastructure FinOps
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Data engineering
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Salary
- USD 146,000 – 194,000 / year
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Data Engineer on Anduril's Infrastructure Engineering team building and scaling a petabyte-scale data platform — architecting ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and quality monitoring with tools like BigQuery, Databricks, and Palantir Foundry, applying software engineering practices (CI/CD, code reviews). Requires 5+ years' experience, strong Python/SQL, and US Top Secret clearance eligibility.
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
Anduril’s Infrastructure Engineering organization provides the digital foundations for all aspects of our business. We are
evolving into a more data-driven approach for designing, building, and managing the critical infrastructure that ingests, transforms, and serves massive datasets to power analytics, machine learning, and intelligent applications.
ABOUT THE JOB
We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer with a strong software engineering foundation to help build and scale our next-generation data platform. This is a high-impact role where you will have the autonomy to architect robust systems that unlock critical business insights from complex, large-scale data
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Design and Build Scalable Data Pipelines: Architect, develop, and maintain robust and efficient ETL/ELT pipelines to
process petabyte-scale data from a wide variety of sources using platforms like Google BigQuery , Databricks, and
Palantir Foundry .
Apply Software Engineering Principles: Treat data infrastructure as a software product. Develop reusable
frameworks, libraries, and tools to accelerate data pipeline development and ensure reliability , using best practices like
version control, code reviews, and CI/CD.
Architect and Model Data: Design and implement well-structured, performant data models and schemas in our data
warehouse and data lakehouse environments, optimized for both analytical querying and application use.
Ensure Data Quality and Reliability: Implement comprehensive data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting to
proactively identify and resolve data issues. Troubleshoot and optimize performance bottlenecks in data processing and
storage layers.
Be a Force Multiplier: Collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and business stakeholders
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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