infrastructure
Posted May 7Senior Platform Engineer
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Building feature branch / preview environments to support UX and rapid feedback loops
- 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
- Support product demos and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems
- responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional
Requirements
- This role is responsible for creating and owning persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, including Fleet Management, Edge Management, and system-level components.
- experience by reducing friction in environment setup and usage
- experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems •
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment pipelines •
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and UX
- experience delivering technology programs across the federal market. What We Do
- We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products. What We Work On Kubernetes
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
Benefits
- Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience.
- Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.
- Remote - USA $148,750 — $201,250 USD Who We Are
- We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation.
- Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance Financial:
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Home Office Budget Leave:
- 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 Learning:
Additional details
- EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP.
- Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Fleet team, focused on building and operating product-aligned platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced.
- These environments power internal dogfooding, UX validation, and customer demos, reducing reliance on ad-hoc local setups and enabling scalable, repeatable and delightful product experiences.
- Today, engineers are frequently pulled into demo setup and environment management of the suite of products, creating context switching and slowing product delivery. This role exists to solve that problem by establishing reliable, self-service environments and tighter system integration, allowing engineering teams to focus on building product capabilities while improving overall product quality and usability.
- You will operate at the intersection of platform engineering and product development, ensuring that the systems we build can be continuously exercised, validated, and experienced in real-world conditions.
- You will be responsible for advocating for a delightful customer product
- experience as the integrator of the product portfolio.
- Designing and operating always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access
- Enabling internal dogfooding through real, long-running deployments of UDS products
- Integrating core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services