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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