Role Description:
We are actively seeking a skilled and motivated Senior or Staff-Level Platform Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development, maintenance, and user/community engagement of our platform and its upstream open source dependencies. This position requires demonstrating a strong understanding of system architecture, problem-solving skills, and the ability to guide junior to mid-level engineers.
As a Senior or Staff Platform Engineer within our organization, you will join a team of dedicated unicorns who are focused on advancing freedom and independence globally.
Responsibilities:
You will create and maintain tools that are the crucial link between Application (Capability) Providers and disparate Production Environments.
In this position, you will be expected to:
- Engineering Collaboration:
- Create and nurture an engineering environment that fosters collaboration, sharing of ideas, and cross-functional teamwork
- Actively participate in Defense Unicorns' all-remote environment, contributing to the open source presence and engaging with the team
- Productization and Reusability:
- Productize solutions to ensure their reusability across different runtime environments
- Manage and contribute to projects that improve the delivery of mission value through effective planning, development, testing, and version support
- Technology Tracking and Integration:
- Track and evaluate emerging technologies, making determinations and recommendations for integration into existing Defense Unicorns products to enhance mission impact
- Solve new problems that may require in-depth knowledge from a variety of technologies
- Communication and Documentation:
- Communicate proactively and routinely with coworkers and all team members on key product or project milestones, new feature work, the overall product roadmap, user interviews/discovery efforts, and any issues/blockers
- Participate actively as a code reviewer for cross-company and cross-team initiatives and products
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.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
- Strong open source presence with a track record of contribution or maintenance or projects in the CNCF, OpenSSF or other foundations
- Demonstrated ability to develop software in Go, TypeScript, or similar languages
- Experience managing platform and infrastructure with terraform or equivalent technologies
- Proven systems thinking applied to strong CI/CD strategies for efficient software delivery
- Experience working in a remote environment that encourages asynchronous PR reviews and strong GitOps practices
- Familiarity with core technologies we leverage such as: Grafana, Istio, Loki, Neuvector, Pepr, Prometheus, Promtail, Authservice, Keycloak, Velero and Zarf
- Proven experience in creating collaborative engineering environments that encourage idea sharing
Senior Platform Engineer: $180,000 - $219,000
Staff Platform Engineer: $209,000 - $279,225
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.
What We Do
We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.
Who We Serve
Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.
What We Work On
- 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
- Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
Benefits Our Unicorns EnjoyHealth:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
Financial:
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
Leave:
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
- Paid Parental Leave
Learning:
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? 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.
At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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What We Do
Defense Unicorns specializes in platform technologies that enable rapid and reliable delivery of capabilities across a wide range of mission and technology areas. We support open architecture platforms for secure mission systems that provide optionality for the end user, promote scalability, and allow for continuous identification and integration of new products and services while avoiding vendor lock. Our open approach creates partnership opportunities across the software ecosystem.
Our people are innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across DoD and the broader federal market.
Let's drive change together. Get in touch at [email protected]
