Remote Associate Software Engineer — Go / Kubernetes

Defense Unicorns; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is hiring an Associate Software Engineer to join the UDS Product Engineering team. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and end users to build and deploy mission-critical software for UDS platforms in a remote USA setting.

You’ll contribute to design, implementation, testing, and deployment of well-scoped features with guidance from senior engineers, growing practical experience across data, tooling, and security in federal-ready environments.

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 (Controllers, Operators, CRDs).
• Familiarity with supply chain security concepts (SBOMs, signing, scanning).
• Experience contributing to open source projects (CNCF, ASF, OpenSSF) is a plus.
• Ability to break down problems, learn quickly, and deliver pragmatic solutions with team support.

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 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.

Skills

Go

APIs

Databases

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes concepts

Open source contributions

Software design

Job description

Defense Unicorns is hiring an Associate Software Engineer to join the UDS Product Engineering team. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and end users to build and deploy mission-critical software for UDS platforms in a remote USA setting.

You’ll contribute to design, implementation, testing, and deployment of well-scoped features with guidance from senior engineers, growing practical experience across data, tooling, and security in federal-ready environments.