Defense Unicorns

Defense Unicorns

FDE Data Engineer- Space

United States - Remote · Contract

No sponsorship$123k-$167kDetected 27 days ago
PostgreSQLRESTKafkaSparkAirflowData EngineeringIncident ResponseCommunication

About the role

  • EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
  • THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP.
  • Role Description This is a forward-deployed engineering role.

Responsibilities

  • Build and support integrations with existing mission systems.
  • Prior experience integrating with these types of systems is more relevant than experience building on them.
  • Build pipelines that move data through classification boundaries, including ingestion, transformation, catalog registration, model/dataset packaging via Zarf, cross-domain transit, and eventual consistency across DDIL conditions.
  • Implement data provenance, lineage, and governance practices. Track where data came from, how it transformed, and who can access it.
  • Support training and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

  • Experience with stream processing infrastructure (Kafka, Redpanda, Flink, or equivalent) and bridging data from heterogeneous sources into modern pipelines.
  • Comfort working directly with mission heroes and government stakeholders.

Nice to have

  • Data provenance, lineage, and governance.
  • Experience with lineage tracking, data catalogs, provenance systems, or governance frameworks.
  • Depth here will be weighted heavily.
  • DoD or defense program experience.
  • Active Secret clearance (or higher).
  • Lakehouse & storage: Apache Iceberg (or Delta/Hudi), object storage (Ceph/S3-compatible), Postgres (including extensions like pgvector), columnar/OLAP engines (Trino, DuckDB, ClickHouse, Sp
  • Colorado Springs, CO or Florida Space Coast (Cape Canaveral / Cocoa Beach / Melbourne).
  • Unstructured data at scale.

Compensation

  • $123k-$167k

Benefits

  • Contribute to runbooks, architecture docs, and working sessions that leave the mission hero's team self-sufficient.

Company info

  • The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.
  • We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Clearance sponsorship available for the right candidate.
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