Staff Platform Engineer

🕒 July 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $178.5k - $241.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform 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

• Architect and maintain scalable runtime production environments across cloud-native and containerized systems, including transforming applications into Kubernetes-friendly formats for bare-metal deployment • Own the technical roadmap for the platform vertical, identifying gaps, planning initiatives, and aligning engineering effort to mission objectives • Provide mentorship to engineers across the team, fostering professional development and raising the technical bar • Identify technical overlap across projects and guide teams on leveraging each other for efficient delivery • Work closely with Mission Managers, providing insights on engineering competency, capacity, velocity, and alignment with mission objectives • Collaborate with product teams, providing feedback on product fit and contributing to product direction based on production usage • Work with customers to define technical roadmaps that align to mission objectives • Advocate for and enforce DevSecOps practices across the platform layer, including security automation, container security, and compliance • Evaluate and select optimal methods for solving complex business problems, assessing new products and their potential impact on mission objectives • Drive continuous improvement in CI/CD pipelines, deployment patterns, and operational tooling

🎯 Requirements

• US citizenship and eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance • Expertise in solving highly technical problems that span multiple knowledge domains • Deep knowledge in 1-2 key technologies such as pipelines, GitOps, Kubernetes, or Go • Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes and container-based systems • Expert with YAML • Proficient with security automation and familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and Cloud Security • Proficient in architecture security design, monitoring, and performance instrumentation in complex enterprise environments • Experience with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services • Proficient in identifying and articulating gaps in existing processes and iterating toward better ways of working • Proven track record of evaluating and selecting optimal methods for solving complex business problems • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams • Experience working on a team following an Agile framework in a remote environment

🏖️ 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) • Paid Parental Leave