Forward-Deployed Space Data Engineer: Production-Ready

Defense Unicorns; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Conferences travel and lodging

Training reimbursements

Unlimited PTO with federal holidays

Medical/Dental/Vision (company paid)

Health Reimbursement Account

Life insurance & disability

401k with company match

Stock options

Home office setup budget

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Defense Unicorns in the United States seeks a forward-deployed data engineer to deploy, integrate, and operate our data stack in mission-relevant environments. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with mission heroes to run workloads in DoD contexts, standing up a governed data platform and connecting it to legacy systems with modern pipelines.

The role emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and clear communication with government stakeholders, with mostly remote work and occasional on-site visits

Qualifications

• Experience building data pipelines across storage, ingestion, streaming, governance, and access.
• Experience with data provenance, lineage, and governance.
• Ability to work with government stakeholders and translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure UDS Data Capability in the mission hero’s environment.
• Build and support integrations with existing mission systems.
• Operate what you deploy, including outage response and capacity planning.
• Generate accreditation artifacts and support cATO/ISSO processes.
• Contribute field feedback to product and engineering and document runbooks.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Airflow

Dagster

Argo Workflows

Kubernetes

Kafka

Apache Iceberg

PostgreSQL

Tools

Apache Iceberg

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

Defense Unicorns in the United States seeks a forward-deployed data engineer to deploy, integrate, and operate our data stack in mission-relevant environments. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with mission heroes to run workloads in DoD contexts, standing up a governed data platform and connecting it to legacy systems with modern pipelines.

The role emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and clear communication with government stakeholders, with mostly remote work and occasional on-site visits