SDN Software Engineer - Secure AI-Driven DevSecOps (Remote)

Defense Unicorns; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid health insurance

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Software Engineer to own the assessment, hardening, testing, and modernization of a Government-provided SDN baseline capability.

You will join the Navy Forward Deployed Engineering team, work with source code, build systems, security tooling, and DevSecOps pipelines to deliver a reliable software baseline.

This role stresses maintainability, traceability, and collaboration with government stakeholders and platform engineers in a remote US setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software-engineering experience and ownership of production or legacy codebases.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and networking knowledge.
• Experience with secure software development and vulnerability remediation.
• U.S. citizenship and ACTIVE US Government SECRET security clearance or higher.
• Experience with containers, CI/CD, and modern release practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical assessment of an SDN codebase, including architecture, build process, dependency evaluation and management, runtime components, test coverage, security posture, and upstream open source relationships.
• Design and implement secure, maintainable changes that remediate vulnerabilities, improve resilience, and preserve traceability between upstream software, Government-owned code, configurations, and local patches.
• Develop trustworthy unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, and failure-mode tests for hardening and modernization changes.
• Institute AI-enabled tooling to enable the hardening and maintenance of the SDN application codebase.
• Debug complex behavior across application, Linux, and network boundaries, including traffic flows, routing, segmentation, identity, failover, telemetry, and performance.
• Partner with platform engineers on container readiness, packaging, CI/CD, deployment workflows, and automated security scanning while owning code-level triage and remediation.
• Support lab validation, demonstrations, release acceptance, and conversion of operational findings into durable fixes and regression tests.
• Produce clear technical documentation, participate in architecture and code reviews, communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders, and mentor other engineers.

Skills

C++

Python

Bash scripting

Tools

Containers

CI/CD

Git

Build automation

Job description

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Software Engineer to own the assessment, hardening, testing, and modernization of a Government-provided SDN baseline capability.

You will join the Navy Forward Deployed Engineering team, work with source code, build systems, security tooling, and DevSecOps pipelines to deliver a reliable software baseline.

This role stresses maintainability, traceability, and collaboration with government stakeholders and platform engineers in a remote US setting.