Remote Cloud-Native Software Engineer - Senior/Staff

Defense Unicorns; Colorado Springs (CO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Company stock options

Home office budget

Flexible time off

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior to Staff Software Engineer to drive a cloud-native transformation of legacy systems for a maintenance planning tool. You will own end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with government partners and vendors.

You will design scalable architectures, implement secure APIs, and modernize platforms with CI/CD, observability, and governance across distributed services. This role is remote-friendly with travel expectations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years (senior) or 10+ years (staff) software engineering experience.
• Experience building a software tool focused on software lifecycle and management.
• Expert in at least one modern language (Go, TypeScript, Python) with testable code.
• Strong system design, API development, and cloud platform knowledge.
• Experience decomposing monoliths into microservices and building secure, distributed services.
• Modern API design beyond CRUD; familiarity with REST and tools like FastAPI/ASP.NET.
• Authorization, data governance, security telemetry pipelines, and RBAC/ABAC concepts.

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into technical solutions with engineers and stakeholders.
• Design data transformations and leverage cloud-native tools for data modeling and quality.
• Refactor legacy on-prem systems to cloud-based services and ensure security compliance.
• Contribute to authentication, identity management, and RBAC/ABAC frameworks.
• Lead architecture discussions, code reviews, and CI/CD improvements.
• Collaborate with partner engineers and mission heroes to deliver solutions.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud-native architecture

API development

Leadership/mentorship

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Argo Workflows

REST APIs

FastAPI

ASP.NET

CI/CD

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior to Staff Software Engineer to drive a cloud-native transformation of legacy systems for a maintenance planning tool. You will own end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with government partners and vendors.

You will design scalable architectures, implement secure APIs, and modernize platforms with CI/CD, observability, and governance across distributed services. This role is remote-friendly with travel expectations.