Software Engineer – Software Defined Networking, SDN

🕒 2 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $148.8k - $201.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Defense Unicorns

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

💰 Seed Round on 2022-10

Consulting • Logistics • Defense

Defense Unicorns is a cutting-edge technology company focused on transforming the way the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) procures and deploys mission-critical software capabilities. Through its Airgap App Store and Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS), Defense Unicorns offers a centralized marketplace of trusted, pre-approved applications designed for rapid, secure, and compliant deployments in the most secure and complex DoD environments. The company emphasizes speed and reliability in software delivery, catering to various missions across domains such as Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force. Defense Unicorns meets the unique challenges of DevSecOps for defense systems, ensuring operational adaptability and security in mission-critical software deployments.

📋 Description

• Own the technical assessment of an SDN codebase, including architecture, build process, dependency evaluation and management, runtime components, test coverage, security posture, and upstream open source relationships • Design and implement secure, maintainable changes that remediate vulnerabilities, improve resilience, and preserve traceability between upstream software, Government-owned code, configurations, and local patches • Develop unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, and failure-mode tests • Institute AI-enabled tooling to harden and maintain the SDN application codebase • Debug complex behavior across application, Linux, and network boundaries, including traffic flows, routing, segmentation, identity, failover, telemetry, and performance • Partner with platform engineers on container readiness, packaging, CI/CD, deployment workflows, and automated security scanning • Support lab validation, demonstrations, release acceptance, and conversion of operational findings into durable fixes and regression tests • Produce technical documentation, participate in architecture and code reviews, communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders, and mentor other engineers

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software-engineering experience • Proficiency in C++, Python and Bash scripting • Demonstrated ownership of production or legacy codebases • Strong Linux fundamentals, including services, processes, permissions, logging, package management, and command-line troubleshooting • Strong networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, segmentation, interfaces, policy enforcement, and traffic analysis • Experience with secure software development, dependency management, vulnerability triage, patching, code review, and remediation • Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing • Working knowledge of containers, version control, build automation, CI/CD, registries, observability, and modern release practices • Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills, including design documents, technical assessments, and runbooks • U.S. citizenship • ACTIVE US Government SECRET security clearance or higher

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision • Premiums are 100% Company Paid • Health Savings Account • Life Insurance • Disability Insurance • 401k Retirement Plan • Company Stock Options • Home Office Budget • Flexible Time Off (FTO) • Federal Holidays • One week for Thanksgiving • Two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s • Paid Parental Leave • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)