Senior Platform Engineer — Remote Demo Environments

AVP; Colorado; Remote; 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

Paid parental leave

Training reimbursements

Job summary

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 creates and owns persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, powering demos, UX validation, and customer scenarios while enabling scalable, repeatable product experiences.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering.
• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems.
• Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience integrating distributed systems across multiple services.
• Comfortable working across system boundaries (application, infrastructure, networking).
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and UX.

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.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers to integrate platform and product components.
• Identify and close gaps in system integration across services and infrastructure layers.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code for reproducible environments.
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction in environment setup and usage.
• Support product implementation and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems.
• Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions where environments and integration are concerned.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

CI/CD

GitOps

Distributed systems

Linux

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

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 creates and owns persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, powering demos, UX validation, and customer scenarios while enabling scalable, repeatable product experiences.