Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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
Skills
- 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 ✨🦄
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- We offer all full-time Unicorns 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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