Senior Security Engineer, Identity
Anduril Industries is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, Identity in Seattle, United States. It pays $166k-$220k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Build and maintain identity and access management systems and defensive controls to protect internal infrastructure.
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 Security Engineering team is looking for a Security Engineer to focus on Identity and Access Management and build and maintain world class defensive controls to protect the systems we use to build our advanced defense technology products.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build an identity engine that powers the whole company and supercharges our security program
- Create applications that enable and enforce our identity framework across the company
- Develop integrations that unify identities across IdPs, cloud providers, SaaS tools, and internal systems
- Automate identity lifecycle operations: provisioning, access reviews, offboarding
- Collaborate with other IAM engineers and partner teams to define architecture and ship iteratively
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong programming ability in one or more general purpose languages (Go, Rust, etc)
- Experience with one or more infrastructure as code languages (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK) in a production capacity
- Experience with identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, OAuth) or identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, etc.)
- Proven ability to translate system design requirements into clean, maintainable implementations
- Experience leading or contributing to architecture and design reviews
- Experience working with cloud platforms and deploying applications through CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of projects, and collaborate across teams
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Have worked in environments with complex identity or access issues, troubleshooting across distributed systems
- Familiarity with RBAC, ABAC, or policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., OPA, Cedar)
- Experience building bespoke solutions in high-growth and high-complexity environments
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP ecosystems and tooling
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:
Benefits
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.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
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No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
- Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
- Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com.
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Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
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What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
How we rate this
Senior Security Engineer, Identity at Anduril Industries rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Walk me through a computer vision problem you solved, from raw data to a deployed model.
- Tell me about a project where identity and access management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where security was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where infrastructure as code was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where iam was part of your work. What did you do?
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