Defense UnicornsRemote
Software Engineer (Mid-Senior)
United States of America
Full Time
2 weeks ago
$123,000 - $201,000 USD
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Key skills
GoSystem DesignAPIsDatabasesAWSAzureKubernetesSupply Chain SecurityOpen Source ContributionTerraformPulumiContinuous DeliveryGitOpsContainersHelmKustomizeMentoringCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Defense Unicorns is seeking Software Engineers (Mid and Senior) to join their UDS Product Engineering team. The role involves collaborating with product managers, designers, and end users to build and deploy mission-critical software solutions, with responsibilities ranging from coding and system design to mentoring other engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Build, ship, and maintain features and systems that support mission-critical environments
- Contribute to system design, architecture, and implementation decisions
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Identify and reduce ambiguity in product and technical requirements
- Debug, optimize, and support production systems (including on-call rotation)
- Integrate with existing defense systems while ensuring interoperability and security compliance
- Contribute to and support the open source ecosystems we depend on
- Develop and maintain technical documentation (designs, runbooks, user guides)
- Participates in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation, owning incident response, troubleshooting, and coordination to ensure reliable production systems
- Own architectural decisions and ensure technical quality across systems
- Lead cross-team initiatives and complex technical efforts
- Influence product direction through deep user and system understanding
- Provide mentorship and raise the bar for engineering practices
Requirements:
- 3+ years (Mid) or 5+ years (Senior) experience in software engineering
- Proficiency in Go or other modern programming languages
- Strong understanding of system design, APIs, databases, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Experience building tools focused on software lifecycle and delivery
- Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts (Controllers, Operators, CRDs)
- Experience with supply chain security (SBOMs, signing, scanning, etc.)
- Experience contributing to open source projects (CNCF, ASF, OpenSSF, etc.) is a strong plus
- Ability to solve complex problems and deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical audiences