Defense Unicorns
Senior Software Engineer - Zarf Team
Remote, United States · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$149k-$201kDetected 4 days ago
GoGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDComplianceRecruitingCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking
About the role
- Defense Unicorns seeks an experienced Software Engineer to work on our open source products.
- As a Software Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection of product development and technical execution.
- As an open source steward, you'll effectively bridge product development with open source contribution.
Responsibilities
- Engage with the open source community, industry partners, and standards bodies via common platforms (e.g., Slack, Github, etc.) to help drive our open source projects forward
- Own architecture decisions and ensure technical quality across the engineering team
- Develop comprehensive documentation, including design specifications (via Zarf Enhancement Proposals), user manuals, and maintenance guides
Requirements
- 5+ years experience with software engineering
- Strong understanding of system design, library and software APIs, and cloud architecture (e.g., AWS, Azure)
- Experience building a software tool with core focuses on software lifecycle and management
- Excited to assess intricate problems, propose solutions, and implement them effectively
- Experience contributing to Open Source Projects. Participating in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Apache Software Foundation (ASF), or Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is a huge 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
Nice to have
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
- Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
- Proficient in Go (proficiency in other modern programming languages a plus)
- Experience contributing to Open Source Projects.
- Participating in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Apache Software Foundation (ASF), or Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is a huge 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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