Forward-Deployed Data Engineer — Remote with Travel

Coinscapture; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a forward-deployed Data Engineer to build and operate distributed data platforms for DoD environments. You will deploy, integrate, and manage data pipelines across Iceberg, Postgres, and streaming services, delivering governed data products under classification constraints.

Responsibilities include provisioning data capability, ensuring provenance and access control, and collaborating with government stakeholders. Remote work is common with periodic on-site visits.

Qualifications

• Experience storing and querying large unstructured datasets using data lake architectures.
• Experience with stream processing infrastructure and bridging data from heterogeneous sources.
• Open-source data warehousing experience without proprietary platforms.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure UDS Data Capability in the mission hero's environment.
• Build pipelines moving data across classification boundaries and across domains.
• Implement data provenance, lineage, and governance practices.
• Operate and maintain deployed data capabilities, including monitoring and upgrades.
• Generate accreditation artifacts and contribute to runbooks and architecture docs.

Skills

Unstructured data at scale

Streaming & integration

Data warehousing

Pipelines & orchestration

Data modeling & SQL

Open-source tooling

U.S. citizenship

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Airflow

Dagster

Argo Workflows

Iceberg

Postgres

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks a forward-deployed Data Engineer to build and operate distributed data platforms for DoD environments. You will deploy, integrate, and manage data pipelines across Iceberg, Postgres, and streaming services, delivering governed data products under classification constraints.

Responsibilities include provisioning data capability, ensuring provenance and access control, and collaborating with government stakeholders. Remote work is common with periodic on-site visits.