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Defense Unicorns

Senior Platform Engineer

Defense Unicorns
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about 4 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$149k - $201k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable platform environments that support development, testing, and demos.
  • Own the reliability and usability of shared environments used across the team.
  • Collaborate closely with software engineers to integrate platform and product components.
  • Identify and close gaps in system integration across services and infrastructure layers.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure as code for reproducible environments.
  • Improve developer experience by reducing friction in environment setup and usage.
  • Support product demos and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems.
  • Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions where environments and integration are concerned.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering.
  • Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems.
  • Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment pipelines.
  • Experience integrating distributed systems across multiple services.
  • Comfortable working across system boundaries (application, infrastructure, networking).
  • Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and UX.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage with premiums 100% company paid.
  • Health Savings Account, Life Insurance, and Disability Insurance.
  • 401k Retirement Plan and Company Stock Options.
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s.
  • Paid Parental Leave.
  • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions and coverage for conferences.