Staff Software Systems Engineer
Abbott
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $173,350–$230,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $256k versus about $202k 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 901 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 858 roles with salary data.
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The Staff Software Engineer, Stateful Systems joins the Stateful Systems team to own the data layer for Lattice, an AI-powered operating system. You will lead the redesign of the core time-series engine to scale horizontally across numerous nodes, supporting hundreds of sensor towers and thousands of camera feeds. Key responsibilities include building distributed storage with high-availability durability, WAL replication, leader election, and pluggable storage-engine layers. You must ensure correctness under partition in intermittently-connected environments by solving hard distributed-systems problems like replication protocols, consistency models, and back pressure. The role requires deep experience with Python, Go, C++, or Rust, along with production experience in storage engines or large-scale data infrastructure. You will solve critical reliability problems for real-time 3D command and control systems in the field.
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