Senior Software Engineer – UDS Foundations Team

🕒 August 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $123.3k - $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

• Work with internal company engineers and the open source community on feature and bug-fix requests • Identify and resolve ambiguity in product requirements • Integrate software products with existing defense systems while ensuring interoperability and security-protocol adherence • Own architecture decisions and technical quality across the engineering team • Develop design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance guides • Track emerging technologies and industry trends to inform product enhancements • Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards • Influence product direction through understanding user needs and system constraints • Participate in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation, including incident response, troubleshooting, and coordination • Collaborate with product managers, designers, end users, and the open source community

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience • Experience using Git and GitHub in collaborative environments • Experience building and operating software products • Proficiency in a modern programming language; Golang and/or TypeScript preferred • Experience with infrastructure as code using OpenTofu or Terraform • Strong understanding of system design, APIs, databases, and cloud architecture, including AWS or Azure • Ability to assess complex problems, propose pragmatic solutions, and drive them to completion • Familiarity with core Kubernetes concepts, including Controllers, Operators, and CRDs • Experience working proactively, managing time efficiently, and thriving in a remote work environment • Experience developing CLIs, Kubernetes Operators, or OpenTofu providers is a plus • Experience contributing to or collaborating with open source projects is a plus • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Willingness to participate in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation • Willingness to travel 5-15%

🏖️ 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)