[Remote] Senior Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Fleet team, focused on building and operating product-aligned platform capabilities. This role is responsible for creating and owning persistent environments and integration layers across the UDS platform to enhance product experiences and improve overall product quality.
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
Skills
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- 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
- 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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