Senior Engineer – Data Platform

🕒 June 15

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Defense Unicorns

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Own the design, delivery, and production quality of platform capabilities end to end — from initial architecture through deployment and observability • Build and maintain open source infrastructure packages for airgap and cloud-native environments • Write comprehensive tests at every level — unit, integration, and end-to-end — and hold the rest of the team to the same standard • Work directly with product and customers to translate mission problems into platform capabilities • Develop technical documentation including design specifications, ADRs, and runbooks • Contribute to relevant open source communities and represent Defense Unicorns as a technical peer • Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team • Operate effectively in an asynchronous, fully remote environment

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems • Proficiency in Go and/or Rust; comfort with Python for tooling and scripting • Strong understanding of Kubernetes — operators, CRDs, controllers, network policies, and workload identity • Experience with distributed systems concepts — consistency models, replication, failure modes, and recovery • Strong testing discipline — integration tests, end-to-end tests, and a clear opinion on what makes a test suite trustworthy • Strong communication and documentation skills — comfortable writing ADRs, design docs, and runbooks • U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

🏖️ 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, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s • Paid Parental Leave • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)