Senior Software Engineer – Open Source

🕒 September 3

🇺🇸 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, maintain, and steward open source products and their broader ecosystems • Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, community contributors, and end users • Work with internal engineers and open source contributors on features, bug fixes, reviews, and releases • Engage with open source communities, industry partners, and standards bodies through platforms such as Slack and GitHub • Facilitate community meetings with internal and external users • Collaborate with users on case studies, blogs, and conference presentations • Identify and resolve ambiguity across product requirements, community needs, and upstream project constraints • Build and integrate secure, interoperable cloud native software for defense environments • Own architecture decisions and technical quality across open source codebases, APIs, and contributor workflows • Develop design proposals, contribution guides, user documentation, and maintenance guides • Track emerging cloud native, open source, and secure software supply chain technologies • Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards • Influence product direction through understanding of user needs and system constraints • Travel 5–15%

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience with software engineering • Experience building or maintaining open source software tools, especially in cloud native, software lifecycle, or software supply chain domains • Proficient in Go • Interest in learning TypeScript • Ability to contribute across additional modern languages such as Rust • Strong understanding of system design, library and software APIs, Kubernetes, and cloud architecture, including AWS and Azure • Experience contributing to open source projects and participating in open source communities • Familiarity with core Kubernetes concepts, including controllers, operators, and CRDs • Involvement with CNCF, ASF, OpenSSF, or similar communities is a plus • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Comfortable conveying technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

🏖️ 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)