Senior Software Engineer - UDS Foundations Team (RD182B)
Defenseunicorns · Remote, United States
About this role
## Senior Software Engineer — UDS Foundations Team (RD182B) Defense Unicorns is seeking a **Senior Software Engineer** to work on our core products. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and end users to build the right solutions—and build them well. The team enables **Platform Engineers** to securely build, deploy, and operate mission-critical applications in **regulated and disconnected environments** by providing the core platform and tooling that power UDS. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll operate at the intersection of product development and technical execution—leading the design, implementation, and deployment of features and systems with direct impact on mission outcomes. --- ### Responsibilities - Work with engineers internally 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 - Participate in communities of practice via **Slack** and **GitHub Issues** - Integrate software products with existing defense systems, ensuring interoperability and adherence to security protocols - Own architecture decisions and ensure technical quality across the engineering team - Develop comprehensive documentation (design specs, user manuals, maintenance guides) - Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to inform product enhancements - Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team - Influence product direction through deep understanding of user needs and system constraints - Participate in a shared **24x7 on-call rotation**, owning incident response, troubleshooting, and coordination --- ### Travel Expectations / Requirements - **5–15%** --- ### Preferred Experience & Qualifications - **5+ years** (Senior) software engineering experience - Experience with **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**) - Experience developing **CLIs**, **Kubernetes Operators**, and/or **OpenTofu providers** (plus) - Familiar with core Kubernetes concepts (Controllers, Operators, CRDs) - Experience contributing to or collaborating with open source projects (e.g., **CNCF, ASF, OpenSSF**) (plus) - Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences - Comfortable working proactively, managing time efficiently, and thriving in a remote environment ✨🦄 --- ### Who We Are Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so customers can focus on the most important challenges—balancing **speed**, **user experience**, and **optionality** without compromising **security**. ### What We Do We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery, consolidating best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation. ### What We Work On - Kubernetes - Cloud environments (**AWS/GCP** and Azure) - Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform/Pulumi) - Continuous delivery and automation tooling - GitOps - Containers - CNCF projects and open source products/packages - Helm/Kustomiz
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