Senior Open Source Cloud-Native Engineer (Remote)

Defense Unicorns; Colorado Springs (CO); 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

Parental Leave

Learning budget / conferences

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks an experienced Software Engineer to build, maintain, and steward our open source products and the ecosystems they depend on. You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, community contributors, and end users to ensure we’re delivering the right solutions—and building them well.

As an Open Source Software Engineer, you’ll operate at the intersection of community stewardship, product development, and technical execution.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in software engineering.
• Experience building or maintaining open source software tools in cloud native or software supply chain.
• Proficient in Go, with interest in learning TypeScript, and contributing across additional modern languages such as Rust
• Strong understanding of system design, library and software APIs, Kubernetes, and cloud architecture (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Experience contributing to open source projects and participating in open source communities; CNCF/ASF/OpenSSF involvement is a plus

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

Go

TypeScript

Rust

Cloud native

Open source

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

Software architecture

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks an experienced Software Engineer to build, maintain, and steward our open source products and the ecosystems they depend on. You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, community contributors, and end users to ensure we’re delivering the right solutions—and building them well.

As an Open Source Software Engineer, you’ll operate at the intersection of community stewardship, product development, and technical execution.