Remote Open Source Cloud-Native Engineer (Go/TS)

Defenseunicorns; United States; On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Flexible Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Training reimbursements

Conferences (travel, lodging)

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is hiring an Open Source Software Engineer to build, maintain, and steward our cloud native OSS. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, contributors, and end users to ensure robust solutions and scalable ecosystems.

You’ll lead design and implementation of cloud native software for defense contexts, while mentoring colleagues and shaping contributor workflows across languages like Go, TypeScript, and Rust. Remote work in the United States is supported.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with software engineering.
• Experience building or maintaining open source software tools, especially in cloud native, software lifecycle, or software supply chain domains.
• Proficient in Go, with interest in learning TypeScript, and contributing across additional modern languages such as Rust

Responsibilities

• Work with internal engineers and open source community contributors on features, bug fixes, reviews, and releases through clear communication, collaboration, and responsible stewardship
• Engage with open source communities, industry partners, and standards bodies via common platforms (e.g., Slack, GitHub, etc.) to help move our projects and their upstream ecosystems forward, including facilitating community meetings with our internal and external users
• Amplify the voice of our projects within the ecosystem by delivering a mission-focused end-user experience and collaborating with users to produce case studies, blogs, or conference presentations
• Proactively identify and resolve ambiguity across product requirements, community needs, and upstream project constraints
• Comfortable working proactively, managing time efficiently, and thriving in a vibrant remote work environment
• Build and integrate secure, interoperable cloud native software for defense environments while contributing improvements back to relevant open source projects where appropriate
• Own architecture decisions and ensure technical quality across open source codebases, APIs, and contributor workflows
• Develop comprehensive documentation, including design proposals, contribution guides, user documentation, and maintenance guides
• Stay abreast of emerging cloud native, open source, and secure software supply chain technologies to inform product enhancements and ecosystem contributions
• Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team
• Influence product direction through deep understanding of user needs and system constraints

Skills

Golang

Cloud native

Open source

TypeScript

Rust

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

Communication

Tools

GitHub

Slack

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Defense Unicorns is hiring an Open Source Software Engineer to build, maintain, and steward our cloud native OSS. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, contributors, and end users to ensure robust solutions and scalable ecosystems.

You’ll lead design and implementation of cloud native software for defense contexts, while mentoring colleagues and shaping contributor workflows across languages like Go, TypeScript, and Rust. Remote work in the United States is supported.