Cloud-Native Software Engineer, Data Pipelines (Remote)

defenseunicorns; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in the United States

Travel 10–15%

Medical dental vision coverage

HSA contributions

401(k) retirement plan

Company stock options

Home office stipend

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

defenseunicorns is seeking a mid to senior software engineer to modernize legacy on-prem software into a cloud-native platform for a U.S. federal government client.

You will design and build scalable data pipelines and distributed services in a fully remote, asynchronous environment with limited on-site expectations. The role emphasizes translating requirements into durable designs, refactoring monoliths into microservices, implementing secure access controls, and advancing CI/CD and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering (mid) or 5+ years (senior).
• Expert-level in Go, TypeScript, or Python with idiomatic, testable code.
• Strong system design, relational DB modeling, indexing, query optimization, and modern API development beyond CRUD.
• Hands-on cloud experience with AWS or Azure and orchestration tools like Argo Workflows.
• Proven ability to decompose complex apps into microservices with RESTful APIs.
• Experience implementing authorization, data governance, and security telemetry across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into concrete designs with data architects and stakeholders.
• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using cloud-native tooling.
• Refactor monolithic on-prem systems into microservices with lightweight APIs and orchestration.
• Implement authentication, authorization, identity management, and RBAC/ABAC frameworks.
• Drive engineering best practices around microservices, testing, observability, and CI/CD.
• Produce comprehensive documentation, participate in architectural and code reviews, mentor engineers.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Python

Tools

Argo Workflows

Terraform

Pulumi

GitOps

Kubernetes

Job description

defenseunicorns is seeking a mid to senior software engineer to modernize legacy on-prem software into a cloud-native platform for a U.S. federal government client.

You will design and build scalable data pipelines and distributed services in a fully remote, asynchronous environment with limited on-site expectations. The role emphasizes translating requirements into durable designs, refactoring monoliths into microservices, implementing secure access controls, and advancing CI/CD and