Senior Software Engineer - Fleet
Defense Unicorns
Role Description:
Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our Fleet team. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and end users to ensure we’re building the right solutions—and building them well.
The team builds and operates a capability of the UDS platform, edge and fleet management. The team enables Airmen, Guardians, Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines to easily view, manage, and deploy systems across remote and distributed environments. For edge node management, the team delivers a solution purpose-built for Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) and fully airgapped environments, supporting large, distributed sets of Kubernetes clusters and edge systems across the battlespace and classification levels. The Fleet team values usability, reliability, and operational impact, taking ownership of complex problems to ensure mission operators can manage systems effectively in connected, semi-connected, and disconnected environments.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll operate at the intersection of product development and technical execution. You’ll lead the technical design, implementation, and deployment of features and systems that have direct impact on mission outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Influence product direction through deep understanding of user needs and system constraints
- Partner with Product and Design to clarify product requirements and translate them into clear, actionable technical deliverables
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams to design, build, and iterate on product features and bug fixes
- Comfortable working proactively, managing time efficiently, and thriving in a vibrant remote work environment! ✨🦄
- Engage in technical communities of practice to share knowledge, align on standards, and drive consistent engineering practices
- Integrate software products with existing defense systems, ensuring seamless interoperability and adherence to security protocols
- Develop comprehensive documentation, including design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance guides
- Contribute 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!
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to inform product enhancements and innovation
- Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team
Travel Expectations/Requirements: 5-15%
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:
- 5+ years experience with software engineering
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortable conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience building a software tool with core focuses on software lifecycle and management
- Proficiency in a modern programming language (Golang preferred)
- Strong understanding of system design, APIs, and databases
- Ability to assess complex problems, propose pragmatic solutions, and drive them to completion
- Familiar with Core Kubernetes Concepts including but not limited to Controllers, Operators, and CRDs
Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.
Who We Are
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 Enjoy
Health:
- 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.