Senior Platform Engineer

The role

This person will design, build, and maintain scalable platform environments to support development, testing, and demos. They will create persistent environments and integration layers across the UDS platform.

What you will do

• 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 implementation and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems
• Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions where environments and integration are concerned

Required qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship

Nice to have

• 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
• 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)

Before you apply

• THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP

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.