Remote Senior VM & Kubernetes Engineer

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Stock options

Home office budget

Paid parental leave

Training reimbursement

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is building UDS VM to securely deploy and manage virtual machines alongside container workloads within the UDS platform. This role focuses on Kubernetes tooling, VM image packaging, and secure, disconnected delivery to support mission-critical tasks.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will shape technical decisions, own complex product capabilities, and collaborate with product, UX, and Mission Heroes to deliver reliable, secure software. Travel 5-10% is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Go or another modern programming language, with an interest in developing Go-based systems.
• Experience designing and building software that interacts with Kubernetes or other distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of APIs, system design, and software architecture.
• Experience developing backend services, controllers, operators, or developer tooling.
• Familiarity with Linux systems, containers, and operating system concepts.
• Experience building, testing, and operating production software.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and independently drive complex work to completion.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug across multiple system boundaries.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to influence technical direction and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, testing, and delivery of complex software features and systems.
• Drive pragmatic technical decisions and contribute to architecture across product components.
• Proactively identify and resolve ambiguity in collaboration with Product, UX, and Mission Heroes.
• Debug complex issues across Kubernetes, virtualization, storage, networking, and operating systems.
• Improve the reliability, security, performance, observability, and maintainability of our software.
• Review code, mentor teammates, and help establish strong engineering practices.
• Document technical decisions, communicate clearly, and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Travel expectations: 5-10%.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Virtualization

APIs

Linux

Debugging

Software architecture

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

KubeVirt

QEMU/KVM

Kubernetes Operators

CRDs

Job description

Defense Unicorns is building UDS VM to securely deploy and manage virtual machines alongside container workloads within the UDS platform. This role focuses on Kubernetes tooling, VM image packaging, and secure, disconnected delivery to support mission-critical tasks.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will shape technical decisions, own complex product capabilities, and collaborate with product, UX, and Mission Heroes to deliver reliable, secure software. Travel 5-10% is expected.