Data Engineer – Space

🕒 June 19

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Defense Unicorns

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51 - 200 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Seed Round on 2022-10

Defense • Software • Cybersecurity

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

• Deploy and harden UDS Data Capability in the mission hero's environment. • Own the integration with what they already have. • Build pipelines that move data through classification boundaries. • Operate what you deploy — initial day-2 ownership: capacity, performance, backup/restore (Velero). • Generate accreditation artifacts. • Be the voice of the mission hero back to product and engineering. • Train and transfer — leave the mission hero's team self-sufficient. • Grow junior Data Engineer FDEs.

🎯 Requirements

• Data engineering breadth • Lakehouse & storage — production experience with Apache Iceberg (or Delta/Hudi), object storage (Ceph/S3-compatible), Postgres (including extensions like pgvector), and at least one columnar/OLAP engine (Trino, DuckDB, ClickHouse, Spark SQL). • Streaming & integration — Kafka (preferably Strimzi on Kubernetes), Flink or equivalent stream processing, CDC patterns (Debezium). • Pipelines & orchestration — Airflow, Dagster, Argo Workflows, or similar. • Governance, catalog & access — REST catalogs (Iceberg REST, Polaris/Gravitino/Nessie family), ABAC/RBAC patterns, OIDC/OAuth. • Data modeling & SQL — fluent in SQL; comfortable designing schemas for both analytical and operational workloads. • Kubernetes in production — deployments, operators, CRDs, storage classes, networking. • Linux fundamentals, container runtime behavior, networking, TLS, secrets management. • IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) and GitOps patterns (Flux, ArgoCD). • Active DoD security clearance required — TS/SCI preferred; minimum active Secret with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. • Comfort being the technical face of Defense Unicorns to a mission hero — listening before prescribing, writing clearly, briefing technical and non-technical stakeholders, and saying "I don't know yet, let me find out" without losing the room. • Self-direction. The mission hero's environment will surprise you, and the answer often isn't in the documentation yet — you'll write it.

🏖️ 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) plus all Federal Holidays • Paid Parental Leave • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)