Senior Software Developer Jobs in Washington, DC
Senior Software Developer jobs in Washington, District of Columbia are in strong demand, concentrated in Capitol Hill, Dupont Circle, and the NoMa corridor across federal contracting, cybersecurity, and government technology sectors. Employers actively hiring include Anduril, Microsoft, and The MIL Corporation. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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
Anduril Cyber is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of capabilities to enable offensive cyber missions. Cyber is a new business line at Anduril, and relies upon our fleet of autonomous vehicles, the Lattice operating system, mesh networks, and other hardware products to engage in cyber operations at the edge. We design and build novel solutions to deploy cyber capabilities in unconventional or difficult to reach environments.
The new Lattice for Cyber team will build the core capabilities, experiences, and primitives that allow our Cyber products to operate reliably at scale. This is a founding team working from an unusually blank sheet of paper.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Software Engineer in Lattice for Cyber, you will build the core capabilities, experiences, and primitives that our offensive Cyber programs rely on. You will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way.
Above all, Anduril engineers on this team are driven by a "Whatever It Takes" mindset — executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes on-time and with high quality. Not only will you build the software, you'll have the opportunity to work with the customer's to deploy it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Work with design teams and cyber subject matter experts to build a brand new UX product that enables US and allied nations to perform offensive cyber missions at scale.
- Design and build an extensible React-based component system as a foundation for other cyber teams to build upon for their customer's use cases and integrations.
- Build the UX that powers our offensive cyber products such as command and control, autonomous cyber behavior trees, SIGINT analysis tools, and data exfiltration pipelines.
- Work directly with program teams and customers as they build real missions on your products.
- Contribute to technical leadership, design clarity, and long-term maintainability across a growing software stack.
- Incorporate AI/LLM-enabled workflow features where they improve analyst or operator effectiveness without compromising system reliability.
- Contribute back to the Lattice software platform core, allowing your products to provide value across the entire company.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production software.
- Strong front-end engineering experience in modern TypeScript/React application development, Angular, Vue.js or similar tools.
- Ability to debug across the full stack, including logs, networking, interfaces, configuration, and hardware/software boundaries.
- Practical experience with Linux and containerized deployment.
- Comfort collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams and translating ambiguous requirements into clean user experiences.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical reviews and architecture discussions.
- Based in, or willing to relocate to, the Washington, DC or the Orange County, CA metro areas.
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time support program teams and customer events.
- US security clearance eligible
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Exposure to AI/LLM integration patterns, inference workflows, tool orchestration, or model-assisted application features.
- Track record of technical leadership, productization work, or direct customer interface in complex engineering environments.
- Prior work delivering into air-gapped or otherwise constrained deployment environments.
- Hands-on offensive or defensive cyber background.
- An active U.S. Security clearance.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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 Cyber is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of capabilities to enable offensive cyber missions. Cyber is a new business line at Anduril, and relies upon our fleet of autonomous vehicles, the Lattice operating system, mesh networks, and other hardware products to engage in cyber operations at the edge. We design and build novel solutions to deploy cyber capabilities in unconventional or difficult to reach environments.
The new Lattice for Cyber team will build the core capabilities, experiences, and primitives that allow our Cyber products to operate reliably at scale. This is a founding team working from an unusually blank sheet of paper.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Software Engineer in Lattice for Cyber, you will build the core capabilities, experiences, and primitives that our offensive Cyber programs rely on. You will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way.
Above all, Anduril engineers on this team are driven by a "Whatever It Takes" mindset — executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes on-time and with high quality. Not only will you build the software, you'll have the opportunity to work with the customer's to deploy it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Work with design teams and cyber subject matter experts to build a brand new UX product that enables US and allied nations to perform offensive cyber missions at scale.
- Design and build an extensible React-based component system as a foundation for other cyber teams to build upon for their customer's use cases and integrations.
- Build the UX that powers our offensive cyber products such as command and control, autonomous cyber behavior trees, SIGINT analysis tools, and data exfiltration pipelines.
- Work directly with program teams and customers as they build real missions on your products.
- Contribute to technical leadership, design clarity, and long-term maintainability across a growing software stack.
- Incorporate AI/LLM-enabled workflow features where they improve analyst or operator effectiveness without compromising system reliability.
- Contribute back to the Lattice software platform core, allowing your products to provide value across the entire company.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production software.
- Strong front-end engineering experience in modern TypeScript/React application development, Angular, Vue.js or similar tools.
- Ability to debug across the full stack, including logs, networking, interfaces, configuration, and hardware/software boundaries.
- Practical experience with Linux and containerized deployment.
- Comfort collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams and translating ambiguous requirements into clean user experiences.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical reviews and architecture discussions.
- Based in, or willing to relocate to, the Washington, DC or the Orange County, CA metro areas.
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time support program teams and customer events.
- US security clearance eligible
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Exposure to AI/LLM integration patterns, inference workflows, tool orchestration, or model-assisted application features.
- Track record of technical leadership, productization work, or direct customer interface in complex engineering environments.
- Prior work delivering into air-gapped or otherwise constrained deployment environments.
- Hands-on offensive or defensive cyber background.
- An active U.S. Security clearance.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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How do I get a senior software developer job in Washington?
Washington's senior software developer market is shaped by federal contracting, defense technology, and cybersecurity, so candidates who can pass background checks or hold active clearances move to the front of the line. Targeting agencies, contractors in the NoMa and Rosslyn corridors, and health IT firms gives you the strongest foothold. Depth in cloud infrastructure, secure development practices, or mission-driven systems work distinguishes applicants in this market.
Which companies hire senior software developers in Washington?
Companies currently hiring senior software developers in Washington include Anduril, Microsoft, and The MIL Corporation, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Washington's employer mix skews toward federal contractors, defense and intelligence technology firms, and health-focused organizations tied to the region's dense concentration of government agencies.
Are there remote senior software developer jobs in Washington?
Yes, though availability depends on the employer type. About 85% of senior software developer openings tied to Washington are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with commercial and health IT roles offering more flexibility. Federal contractor and clearance-required positions, which are prevalent in Washington, most often require on-site or hybrid arrangements.
How can I get a senior software developer job in Washington with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Washington is targeting associate or mid-level developer roles at commercial technology firms or health IT companies in the NoMa and Dupont Circle areas, where clearance requirements are less common. Local employers in civic tech and government-adjacent startups also hire developers at earlier career stages. Building familiarity with cloud platforms and contributing to open-source projects strengthens applications for Washington's technically rigorous hiring processes.
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