Senior Software Engineer – Rust

🕒 June 17

🇺🇸 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

• Design and implement high-performance distributed software systems in Rust for cloud-native, resource-constrained, and edge environments • Participate in system architecture, network topology, hardware part evaluation, and engineering reviews • Develop systems supporting human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop autonomy workflows • Build infrastructure for deterministic builds, reproducible environments, and configuration management • Implement and maintain over-the-air update mechanisms for virtual machines, containers, and embedded packages • Integrate software with microcontroller peripherals and hardware buses • Develop and execute unit, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, functional, end-to-end, field, and scale testing strategies • Collaborate with engineers, researchers, operators, and multidisciplinary teams to deploy and sustain systems • Support integration, exercises, and operational events • Optimize systems for performance, reliability, power consumption, and maintainability

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience in software engineering, embedded systems, or firmware development, delivering production-grade product • Strong proficiency in Rust; experience in low-level, embedded, or no_std environments is a bonus • Experience integrating with microcontroller peripherals and hardware interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB, etc.) • Familiarity with software design, algorithm implementation, debugging, testing, profiling, and performance optimization • Working knowledge of distributed systems, data distribution, and network architectures • Working knowledge of networking protocols and technologies (TCP/UDP, BLE/LoRa, routing) • Working knowledge of trust systems, certificate management, and encryption schemes • Working knowledge of modern data patterns, CRDTs, offline-first, and synchronization/replication • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines • U.S. citizenship • Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret / SCI 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) • 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)