Defense Unicorns
Senior Software Engineer - UDS Foundations Team
Remote, United States · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$123k-$201kDetected 4 days ago
TypeScriptGoGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDIncident ResponseComplianceRecruitingCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior Software Engineer to work on our core products.
- As a Software Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection of product development and technical execution.
- Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.
Responsibilities
- Own architecture decisions and ensure technical quality across the engineering team
- Develop comprehensive documentation, including design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance guides
Requirements
- 5+ years (Senior) experience with software engineering
- Experience using Git and GitHub in collaborative environments
- Experience with infrastructure as code using OpenTofu or Terraform
- Strong understanding of system design, APIs, databases, and cloud architecture (e.g., AWS, Azure)
- Experience building and operating software products
- Ability to assess complex problems, propose pragmatic solutions, and drive them to completion
- Experience developing CLIs, Kubernetes Operators, and/or OpenTofu providers is a plus
- Familiar with Core Kubernetes Concepts including but not limited to Controllers, Operators, and CRDs
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortable conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working proactively, managing time efficiently, and thriving in a vibrant remote work environment ✨🦄
Nice to have
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
- Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
- Proficiency in a modern programming language (Golang and/or TypeScript preferred)
- Experience contributing to or collaborating with Open Source Projects (e.g., CNCF, ASF, OpenSSF) is a plus
- Don't have all the preferred experience or qualifications?
- Preferred Experience and
Compensation
- Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year's
- Paid Parental Leave
Company info
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
- GitOps
- Containers
- CNCF projects and open source products and packages
- Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
- Building and improving security delivery
- Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges.
- We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation.
- Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security.
- Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.
- We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery.
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