Defense Unicorns

Platform Engineer

• You will serve as a crucial link between applications, either custom development, COTS, or OSS, and the Navy platform environment, advocating best practices and facilitating communication between application teams and platform teams.
• Evaluate and weigh different methods for solving complex technical problems; identify innovative solutions.
• Solve technical problems that span 2-3 knowledge domains, showcasing a broad understanding of diverse technological landscapes. Demonstrate expert knowledge in 1-2 key technologies such as full-stack application development, CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, Tofu, AWS, Go, or others, contributing to the team's technical excellence.
• Contribute to the strategic planning that aligns technological advancements with the mission objectives.
• Exhibit strong programming skills and deep familiarity with Linux/Unix operating systems.
• Implement infrastructure as code and contribute to the build/maintenance of kubernetes clusters on various distributions (i.e EKS & RKE2).
• Apply extensive experience with cloud native technology deployments, emphasizing secure coding practices and vulnerability remediation.
• Build relationships with external teams and collaborate with other platform teams.
• Travel Expectations: 4-12 times per year.

Platform Engineer – Navy

Full-stack Engineer

• Building interfaces for managing individual assets and large fleets of systems
• Designing and implementing data-rich UIs that reflect real-time and distributed system state
• Developing workflows for deploying, updating, and monitoring systems across environments
• Handling complex state management and asynchronous data flows
• Integrating frontend applications with backend APIs and platform services
• Improving usability and clarity for technically complex operations
• Partnering with UX to translate complex system behavior into intuitive user experiences
• Design and build scalable, maintainable frontend applications
• Collaborate with product, UX, and backend engineers to define and implement features
• Translate complex backend capabilities into clear and usable interfaces
• Write clean, testable, and well-structured code
• Develop and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
• Contribute to frontend architecture and technical decisions
• Identify and improve performance, reliability, and usability issues
• Work effectively in a remote, asynchronous environment

Senior Software Engineer – UDS Fleet Team

Technical Customer Success

• Serve as the primary post-sales success lead for assigned commercial accounts
• Build trusted relationships with executive leadership, engineering teams, and technical stakeholders
• Develop and execute outcome-aligned success plans for our customers
• Lead Quarterly/Executive Reviews focused on platform value, operational readiness, and customer outcomes
• Proactively identify adoption gaps, risks, and expansion opportunities
• Assist customers on Kubernetes-based platform architecture questions
• Guide customers through secure software delivery principles and complex deployment requirements
• Advise on CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and modern software delivery practices
• Troubleshoot complex deployment challenges in partnership with Engineering
• Articulate customer requirements related to compliance, security, and regulatory frameworks
• Identify renewal & expansion opportunities across our customer base
• Drive deeper platform adoption across development teams
• Platform adoption across customer accounts
• Renewal and expansion within assigned accounts
• Time-to-operational capability
• Customer health and satisfaction
• Successful platform deployments and time-to-value

Technical Customer Success Manager

• Designing and operating always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access
• Building feature branch / preview environments to support UX and rapid feedback loops
• Enabling internal dogfooding through real, long-running deployments of UDS products
• Integrating core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services
• Reducing reliance on local environments by creating shared, reproducible infrastructure
• Supporting pathways toward self-service demo and trial environments
• Improve system reliability by enabling continuous, real-world usage and validation
• Partnering with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios

Senior Platform Engineer

Backend Engineer

• 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 working proactively, managing time efficiently, and thriving in a vibrant remote work 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
• Participate in on-call rotation for our production environment
• Develop comprehensive documentation, including design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance guides
• Contribute to Open Source Projects. Participating in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Apache Software Foundation (ASF), or Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is a huge plus!
• 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

Software Engineer, Golang

Manager

• As a Mission Manager for Cyber, you will collaborate with Cyber Tech Leads to establish a technical roadmap for Mission outcomes with Mission Heroes
• Serves as a lead Mission Manager for a Cyber Domain Delivery Effort
• Collaborates with Cyber Leads to establish technical roadmap for Mission Outcomes with Mission Heroes
• Aligns Defense Unicorns’ Product Roadmaps to technical roadmap for your Hero and provides feedback to Product segment on Mission need dates for features to drive adoption
• Share and facilitate feedback from Delivery segment with Product segment regarding Defense Unicorns’ OSS projects and productized services
• Work with Tech Leads to established an aligned Delivery roadmap, using Product roadmaps
• Follow company best practices in strategies for building Delivery solutions
• Balance priorities from users, customers, stakeholders, and the team to deliver mission value in a scalable way
• Understand the contract(s) for the Cyber Delivery Effort(s)
• Assist with Mission Hero engagements for the contract process to start new work, continue work, or scale up work
• Fosters an environment for Unicorn growth, mentorship, and coaching within the team
• Fosters an environment for Defense Unicorns values and principles to thrive

Mission Manager

Data Engineer

• Deploy and harden UDS Data Capability in the mission hero's environment — stand up the UDS Store (Iceberg, Rook/Ceph, pgvector, Postgres), wire up UDS Transit for air-gap data movement, configure UDS Govern policies (Pepr/Lula), and integrate UDS Connect (Strimzi/Kafka) where streaming or legacy connectors are required.
• Own the integration with what they already have — connect UDS Data Capability to whatever's already running: Big Bang, legacy Oracle and SQL Server, flat-file drops, SOAP/REST endpoints, message buses, existing object storage, identity providers (Keycloak, mission-side SSO).
• Build pipelines that move data through classification boundaries — ingestion, transformation, catalog registration, model/dataset packaging via Zarf, cross-domain transit, eventual consistency across DDIL conditions.
• Operate what you deploy — initial day-2 ownership: capacity, performance, backup/restore (Velero), observability (Vector/Loki), incident response, upgrade paths. Hand off to the mission hero's ops team once it's stable.
• Generate accreditation artifacts — STIG evidence, cATO documentation, FIPS validation notes, policy mappings. You produce the evidence the mission hero's ISSM/ISSO needs to actually run this in IL4/IL5.
• Be the voice of the mission hero back to product and engineering — file the issues, write the postmortems, propose the operator improvements, push the platform team on what's actually breaking in the field. Your field experience is the highest-signal input we have.
• Train and transfer — leave the mission hero's team self-sufficient: runbooks, architecture docs, working sessions, knowledge transfer.
• Grow junior Data Engineer FDEs — pair on hard problems, review integration designs before they reach the customer, and help junior engineers build judgment faster than they would alone. You're not managing anyone; you're making the team better.

Senior FDE Data Engineer

• Deploy and harden UDS Data Capability in the mission hero's environment.
• Own the integration with what they already have.
• Build pipelines that move data through classification boundaries.
• Operate what you deploy — initial day-2 ownership: capacity, performance, backup/restore (Velero).
• Generate accreditation artifacts.
• Be the voice of the mission hero back to product and engineering.
• Train and transfer — leave the mission hero's team self-sufficient.
• Grow junior Data Engineer FDEs.

Data Engineer – Space

Engineering Manager

• Lead, inspire, and manage a team of engineers dedicated to developing and maintaining UDS-compatible applications.
• Own the team's deliverables, ensuring the timely delivery of scalable, highly-available products that exceed customer expectations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize and manage engineering roadmaps in alignment with Product objectives.
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in code quality, architecture, and processes, driving innovation and efficiency.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of team members, helping them advance their careers and achieve their goals.
• Facilitate communication among clients/customers and engineers, ensuring clear understanding of specifications, budgets, and deadlines.
• Stay abreast of new trends, developments, and technologies to continually improve product lines and production efficiency.

Technical Writer

• Plan, author, and maintain installation guides, admin/operator guides, troubleshooting/runbooks, and release notes aligned to product releases and operational needs.
• Plan, author, and maintain Warfighter focused end user guides.
• Installation & deployment documentation: Create step-by-step install/configuration guides for product components and integrations (including prerequisites, expected outputs, verification steps, and safe rollback guidance).
• Administration & Day-2 operations: Document operational workflows: upgrades, configuration changes, health checks, resource considerations, and common operational failure modes in constrained/mission environments.
• Troubleshooting & runbooks: Build and curate troubleshooting-by-symptom runbooks (diagnosis steps, likely causes, resolution paths, and prevention guidance).
• Aid development of training modules and job aids for user personas.
• Operate in a Git-based doc workflow (issues/PRs/reviews), establish templates, and improve/maintain documentation.
• Information architecture & discoverability: Organize technical documentation so it’s easy to navigate and avoids duplication across products

Release Readiness Engineer – Technical Writer

Solutions Engineer

• Act as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for customers and their technical needs, challenges, and goals.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, and support of customer engagements
• Understand and articulate the technical competency and impact of engineers on the team
• Understand Defense Unicorns' products and philosophy
• Assist the team in discovery and framing efforts across the industry
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase team efficiency and effectiveness
• Assist with demonstration and content creation on products
• Manage the "proof of concept" work
• Build and maintain continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Build, deploy, test, and troubleshoot UDS Bundles, Zarf packages, and UDS packages.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for brainstorming, research, and innovative growth strategies
• Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify growth opportunities.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to growth hacking and user acquisition
• Experiment with new tools, techniques, and technologies to improve growth outcomes

Senior Solutions Architect

• Write and maintain test suites — integration, end-to-end, and regression
• Write automated tests and test documentation that any engineer can reproduce and act on
• Package and deploy open source software components in Kubernetes environments
• Build and maintain seed data tooling and scripts that make the platform demonstrable from scratch
• Contribute to internal tooling, dashboards, and documentation
• Write clear bug reports and reproduction steps
• Participate actively in code review, seeking feedback, and growing your technical judgment

Associate Engineer – Data Platform

IT Support

• Serve as the primary point of contact for Tier 1 end-user support across the platform environment, triaging issues and resolving or escalating as appropriate
• Handle user permissions and access requests for mission applications
• Troubleshoot device usage issues and general application access problems
• Triage development team tickets for broken pipelines, dashboard questions, and log investigation, routing to the correct team
• Manage day-to-day ticket flow using JIRA Service Management and participate in the on-call rotation
• Develop and maintain internal documentation, runbooks, playbooks, and triage procedures to formalize Tier 1 processes
• Contribute to platform homepage and user-facing documentation, including support contact information and links to guides
• Define and maintain clear Tier 1 scope boundaries and escalation criteria in coordination with Tier 2 engineering teams
• Pair with senior engineers during lower-volume periods to build technical depth in Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE practices with the platform.
• Support documentation efforts for platform User and Admin guides

Junior Engineer – Tier 1 Helpdesk Support

• Administer core IT systems including MDM (Jamf), Google Workspace, and identity/access management tooling, ensuring configurations align with NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC requirements
• Lead IT projects from requirements through implementation, such as SaaS tool rollouts, onboarding/offboarding automation, and endpoint compliance initiatives
• Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 helpdesk support, serving as an escalation point for complex issues
• Perform endpoint lifecycle, including imaging, configuration, policy enforcement, compliance reporting, and decommission
• Administer SaaS application access and provisioning workflows, and access reviews
• Onboard and offboard users by managing access through Google Admin Console and related identity tools, coordinating across People Ops, Security, and IT to ensure timely and compliant access changes
• Technical implementation of security controls aligned with NIST SP 800-171, such as logging, SIEM integration, incident response capability, and endpoint configuration management
• Collaborate with third-party vendors and internal stakeholders on SaaS tool rollouts, troubleshooting, renewals, and integrations
• Create and maintain IT documentation, runbooks, and process improvements to improve operational consistency and reduce ticket volume