FDE Data Engineer- Space (FedD147)

The role

You will deploy, integrate, and operate a data stack in DoD environments. You will work alongside mission users to move UDS Data Capability into production under classification.

What you will do

• Deploy and configure UDS Data Capability in the mission hero's environment
• Build and support integrations with existing mission systems
• Contribute to mapping complex data landscapes
• Build pipelines that move data through classification boundaries
• Implement data provenance, lineage, and governance practices
• Operate deployed systems including capacity, performance, and backup/restore
• Generate accreditation artifacts like STIG evidence and cATO documentation
• Contribute field feedback back to product and engineering
• Support training and knowledge transfer

Required qualifications

• U.S. citizenship
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
• Experience storing and querying large unstructured datasets using data lake architectures
• Experience with stream processing infrastructure (Kafka, Redpanda, Flink, or equivalent)
• Open-source data warehousing platform experience
• Experience with Airflow, Dagster, Argo Workflows, or similar
• Fluent in SQL
• Comfortable designing schemas for both analytical and operational workloads
• Comfortable building on open-source tooling
• Comfort working directly with mission heroes and government stakeholders
• Comfort with periodic on-site work and remote work

Nice to have

• Experience with lineage tracking, data catalogs, provenance systems, or governance frameworks
• DoD or defense program experience
• Active Secret clearance (or higher)
• Experience with Apache Iceberg, Delta/Hudi, Ceph/S3-compatible, Postgres, or columnar/OLAP engines
• Debezium or similar CDC patterns
• Experience with REST catalogs, ABAC/RBAC patterns, OIDC/OAuth, lineage and audit
• General familiarity with Kubernetes deployments, operators, and applications
• Linux fundamentals, container runtime behavior, networking, TLS, secrets management
• IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) and GitOps patterns (Flux, ArgoCD)
• Familiarity with the CNCF ecosystem

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)
• All Federal Holidays
• One week for Thanksgiving
• Two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s

Before you apply

• Requires U.S. citizenship
• Requires ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance

About the company

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery for customers. They create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery.