Principal Software Engineer, Platform
Oracle
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This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $174,600–$231,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $294k versus about $203k for comparable roles.
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.
Anduril Industries currently has 850 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 821 roles with salary data.
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Principal Software Engineer, InfraEng Platform Team will serve as the first engineer on the InfraEng Platform Team, establishing foundational architecture, engineering standards, and delivery practices for the infrastructure hub. This role involves evaluating existing codebases to determine whether to extend or rebuild systems that provide self-service access to cloud and on-premise resources across AWS and Azure. The engineer will design core APIs, data models, and unified identity and authorization layers using RBAC and ABAC models while building console, CLI, and API surfaces. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Go, Python, or Java, alongside deep expertise in control plane and data plane design, Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform. The role addresses the challenge of replacing manual tickets with automated, safe self-service for internal teams managing complex networking and cloud infrastructure.
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