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Senior Engineer – Data Platform
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$148.8K - $201.3K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Engineer – Data Platform
Defense Unicorns
• Own the design, delivery, and production quality of platform capabilities end to end — from initial architecture through deployment and observability • Build and maintain open source infrastructure packages for airgap and cloud-native environments • Write comprehensive tests at every level — unit, integration, and end-to-end — and hold the rest of the team to the same standard • Work directly with product and customers to translate mission problems into platform capabilities • Develop technical documentation including design specifications, ADRs, and runbooks • Contribute to relevant open source communities and represent Defense Unicorns as a technical peer • Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team • Operate effectively in an asynchronous, fully remote environment
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems
- Proficiency in Go and/or Rust; comfort with Python for tooling and scripting
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes — operators, CRDs, controllers, network policies, and workload identity
- Experience with distributed systems concepts — consistency models, replication, failure modes, and recovery
- Strong testing discipline — integration tests, end-to-end tests, and a clear opinion on what makes a test suite trustworthy
- Strong communication and documentation skills — comfortable writing ADRs, design docs, and runbooks
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
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
- 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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