Senior Platform Engineer (Fully Remote)

Defense Unicorns; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Federal holidays

Thanksgiving week off

Christmas and New Year weeks off

Healthcare premiums covered

401k

Stock options

Home office budget

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, building and operating product-aligned platform capabilities. You will design and maintain scalable environments that support development, testing, and demos in an always-on setting.

Collaborate with engineering, product and UX to mirror real user scenarios while ensuring reliability and usability of shared environments. We support flexible time off and generous benefits, reflecting our commitment to work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering.
• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes, container-based systems, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable platform environments that support development, testing, and demos.
• Own the reliability and usability of shared environments used across the team.
• Partner with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

Container-based systems

Infrastructure as code

Tools

IaC tooling

Job description

• Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, building and operating product-aligned platform capabilities.
• This role focuses on creating always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable platform environments that support development, testing, and demos.
• Own the reliability and usability of shared environments used across the team.
• Partner with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios.

Experience:

• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering.
• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes, container-based systems, and infrastructure as code.
• Flexible Time Off plus federal holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year.
• 100% company paid Medical/Dental/Vision premiums, 401k, stock options, and home office budget.

Defense Unicorns

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery for defense and civil agencies. The team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.