Senior Engineer - Data Platform
Defense Unicornsabout 4 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$149k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, delivery, and production quality of platform capabilities end to end.
- Build and maintain open source infrastructure packages for airgap and cloud-native environments.
- Write comprehensive tests at every level and hold the team to the same standard.
- Work directly with product and customers to translate mission problems into platform capabilities.
- Develop technical documentation including design specifications, ADRs, and runbooks.
- Contribute to relevant open source communities and represent Defense Unicorns as a technical peer.
- Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team.
- Operate effectively in an asynchronous, fully remote environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems.
- Proficiency in Go and/or Rust; comfort with Python for tooling and scripting.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, including operators, CRDs, and network policies.
- Experience with distributed systems concepts such as consistency models and recovery.
- Strong testing discipline with a clear opinion on trustworthy test suites.
- Strong communication and documentation skills, comfortable writing ADRs and design docs.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums.
- 401k retirement plan and company stock options.
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays.
- Paid parental leave and reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions.
- Coverage for travel, lodging, and fees for conferences.