Senior Software Engineer – Virtual Machines

🕒 6 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $148.8k - $201.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 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

• Build Kubernetes tooling and APIs for orchestrating and managing virtual machine workloads • Build tooling to inspect, convert, prepare, and package VM images for disconnected delivery • Integrate virtual machine workloads with UDS networking, observability, and security capabilities • Create VM management workflows for inventory, status, power controls, and console access • Solve problems across VM lifecycle, persistent storage, networking, and image distribution • Make VM deployments reproducible, secure, and supportable in air-gapped environments • Work with Product, UX, and Mission Heroes to turn operational needs into useful product capabilities • Own the design, implementation, testing, and delivery of complex software features and systems • Drive technical decisions and contribute to architecture across product components • Identify and resolve ambiguity with Product, UX, and Mission Heroes • Debug complex issues across Kubernetes, virtualization, storage, networking, and operating systems • Improve software reliability, security, performance, observability, and maintainability • Review code, mentor teammates, and establish strong engineering practices • Document technical decisions and collaborate across teams

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong proficiency in Go or another modern programming language, with an interest in developing Go-based systems • Experience designing and building software that interacts with Kubernetes or other distributed systems • Strong understanding of APIs, system design, and software architecture • Experience developing backend services, controllers, operators, or developer tooling • Familiarity with Linux systems, containers, and operating system concepts • Experience building, testing, and operating production software • Ability to navigate ambiguity, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and independently drive complex work to completion • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug across multiple system boundaries • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to influence technical direction and mentor other engineers • Travel expectation/requirement: 5–10% • Great to have: experience with KubeVirt, QEMU/KVM, or other virtualization technologies • Great to have: experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or CRDs • Great to have: experience configuring, managing, or troubleshooting Windows virtual machines • Great to have: familiarity with VM image formats, conversion, migration, and lifecycle management • Great to have: experience with Kubernetes networking and storage • Great to have: experience building CLI tools, particularly in Go • Great to have: familiarity with Zarf, OCI artifacts, or software packaging and distribution • Great to have: experience working in air-gapped, disconnected, or regulated environments • Great to have: contributions to Kubernetes, KubeVirt, or other CNCF open-source projects • Great to have: experience building security-focused software or integrating systems with identity, access control, and observability platforms

🏖️ 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)