Senior Platform Engineer-Cloud

Defense Unicorns; East Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Defense Unicorns, a contractor for the U.S. government, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, focusing on building and operating platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced.

This role designs and runs always-on environments and integration layers across Fleet Management, Edge Management, and OS, powering internal dogfooding, UX validation, and customer demos with scalable, repeatable product experiences.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infra-focused software engineering.
• Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment pipelines.
• Comfortable working across system boundaries (app, infrastructure, networking).
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, and UX.

Responsibilities

• Designing and operating always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access.
• Building feature branch / preview environments to support UX feedback loops.
• Enabling internal dogfooding through long-running deployments of UDS products.
• Integrating core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services.
• Reducing reliance on local environments by creating shared, reproducible infrastructure.
• Supporting self-service demo and trial environments for stakeholders.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Multi-tenant environments

CI/CD

GitOps

Linux/Unix

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, focused on building and operating product-aligned platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced.

This role is responsible for creating and owning persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, including Fleet Management, Edge Management, and system-level components. These environments power internal dogfooding, UX validation, and customer demos, reducing reliance on ad-hoc local setups and enabling scalable, repeatable and delightful product experiences.

This role exists to solve that problem by establishing reliable, self-service environments and tighter system integration, allowing engineering teams to focus on building product capabilities while improving overall product quality and usability.

You will operate at the intersection of platform engineering and product development, ensuring that the systems we build can be continuously exercised, validated, and experienced in real-world conditions. You will be responsible for advocating for a delightful customer product experience as the integrator of the product portfolio.

• Designing and operating always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access
• Building feature branch / preview environments to support UX and rapid feedback loops
• Enabling internal dogfooding through real, long-running deployments of UDS products
• Integrating core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services
• Reducing reliance on local environments by creating shared, reproducible infrastructure
• Supporting pathways toward self-service demo and trial environments
• Improving system reliability by enabling continuous, real-world usage and validation
• Partnering with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios
• Design, build, and maintain scalable platform environments that support development, testing, and demos
• Collaborate closely with software engineers to integrate platform and product components
• Support product implementation and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems
• Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions where environments and integration are concerned

Travel Expectations/Requirements: 25%

• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering
• Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment pipelines
• Comfortable working across system boundaries (application, infrastructure, networking)
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and UX

Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.

Remote - USA

$Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Who We Serve

Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

• Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
• CNCF projects and open source products and packages
• Building and improving security delivery
• Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance

Financial:

• ~401k Retirement Plan
• ~ Company Stock Options
• ~ Home Office Budget

We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year's

Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions

Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.

At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.