Defense Unicorns
Senior Platform Engineer
Remote, United States · Senior · Contract
No sponsorship$10k-$20kDetected 12 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDLinuxDevOpsPlatform EngineeringComplianceRecruitingCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- This role is responsible for creating and owning persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, including Fleet Management, Edge Management, and system-level components.
- These environments power internal dogfooding, UX validation, and customer demos, reducing reliance on ad-hoc local setups and enabling scalable, repeatable and delightful product experiences.
- Today, engineers are frequently pulled into demo setup and environment management of the suite of products, creating context switching and slowing product delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable platform environments that support development, testing, and demos
- Own the reliability and usability of shared environments used across the team
- Collaborate closely with software engineers to integrate platform and product components
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code for reproducible environments
- Support product demos and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems
Requirements
- Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment pipelines
- Experience integrating distributed systems across multiple services
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems
- Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments
- Comfortable working across system boundaries (application, infrastructure, networking)
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and UX
Nice to have
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
- Preferred Experience and 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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