Senior Platform Engineer — Self-Serve Demo Environments

Defense Unicorns; Aurora (CO); Remote; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

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. You will create and own persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform.

You will advocate for a delightful customer product experience as the integrator of the product portfolio, working with engineering, product, and UX to reflect real user

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.

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

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

GitOps

Distributed systems

Linux/Unix

Problem-solving

Communication

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. You will create and own persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform.

You will advocate for a delightful customer product experience as the integrator of the product portfolio, working with engineering, product, and UX to reflect real user