Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for its Army team. The role builds and operates persistent platform environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, enabling development, testing, demos, and customer-focused product validation.
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 implementation and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems
- Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions where environments and integration are concerned
Skills
- THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP
- 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, and vision
- Medical, dental, and vision premiums are 100% company paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company stock options
- Home Office Budget
- All full-time Unicorns receive 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
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
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