Senior Software Engineer - UDS Foundations Team (RD123B)

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior Software Engineer to work on our core products. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and end users to ensure we’re building the right solutions—and building them well.

Responsibilities:

• Work with engineers internal to the company, and within the open source community on feature and bug fix requests
• Proactively identify and resolve ambiguity in product requirements
• Comfortable in an asynchronous, all remote environment
• Actively participate in communities of practice via Slack and Github Issues
• Integrate software products with existing defense systems, ensuring seamless interoperability and adherence to security protocols
• Own architecture decisions and ensure technical quality across the engineering team
• Develop comprehensive documentation, including design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance guides
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to inform product enhancements and innovation
• Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team
• Influence product direction through deep understanding of user needs and system constraints
• Participates in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation, owning incident response, troubleshooting, and coordination to ensure reliable production systems

Requirements:

• Work with engineers internal to the company, and within the open source community on feature and bug fix requests
• Proactively identify and resolve ambiguity in product requirements
• Comfortable in an asynchronous, all remote environment
• Actively participate in communities of practice via Slack and Github Issues
• Integrate software products with existing defense systems, ensuring seamless interoperability and adherence to security protocols
• Own architecture decisions and ensure technical quality across the engineering team
• Develop comprehensive documentation, including design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance guides
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to inform product enhancements and innovation
• Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team
• Influence product direction through deep understanding of user needs and system constraints
• Participates in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation, owning incident response, troubleshooting, and coordination to ensure reliable production systems
• 5+ years (Senior) experience with software engineering
• Experience using Git and GitHub in collaborative environments
• Experience building and operating software products
• Proficiency in a modern programming language (Golang and/or TypeScript preferred)
• Experience with infrastructure as code using OpenTofu or Terraform
• Strong understanding of system design, APIs, databases, and cloud architecture (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Ability to assess complex problems, propose pragmatic solutions, and drive them to completion
• Experience developing CLIs, Kubernetes Operators, and/or OpenTofu providers is a plus
• Familiar with Core Kubernetes Concepts including but not limited to Controllers, Operators, and CRDs
• Experience contributing to or collaborating with Open Source Projects (e.g., CNCF, ASF, OpenSSF) is a plus
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortable conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working proactively, managing time efficiently, and thriving in a vibrant remote work environment ✨🦄