Remote Associate Software Engineer — Cloud Native (Go/K8s)

Defense Unicorns; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision

401k with company stock options

Home office budget

Paid holidays & time off

Parental leave

Conferences & trainings reimbursement

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to join the UDS Product Engineering team. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and end users to help build the right solutions and build them well.

As an Associate Software Engineer, you’ll grow at the intersection of product development and technical execution. You’ll contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of well-scoped features with guidance from experienced engineers,

Qualifications

• 1-3 years experience in software engineering.
• Working knowledge of Go or another modern programming language.
• Foundational understanding of software design, APIs, databases, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Exposure to tools or projects focused on software lifecycle and delivery.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts, or interest in learning them.
• Familiarity with supply chain security concepts, or interest in learning them.
• Experience contributing to open source projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver well-tested, maintainable code for clearly scoped product features and fixes
• Take ownership of small to medium tasks from implementation through review and release
• Participate in design discussions and learn to connect product needs with technical tradeoffs
• Ask good questions, clarify requirements, and make steady progress with appropriate support
• Build growing understanding of the systems, users, and mission domains you work in
• Develop stronger architectural design instincts by pairing with experienced engineers on larger features
• Practice breaking ambiguous work into concrete next steps with team guidance
• Contribute to open source projects and internal tooling through scoped issues, fixes, and documentation
• Develop and maintain clear technical documentation such as implementation notes, runbooks, and user guides
• Participate in production support and shared on-call practices with guidance

Skills

Go programming

APIs

Cloud environments

Kubernetes concepts

Open source contribution

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

CI/CD tooling

Open source projects

Job description

Defense Unicorns is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to join the UDS Product Engineering team. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and end users to help build the right solutions and build them well.

As an Associate Software Engineer, you’ll grow at the intersection of product development and technical execution. You’ll contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of well-scoped features with guidance from experienced engineers,