Senior Platform Engineer - Self-Serve Envs & Kubernetes

Defense Unicorns; San Antonio (TX); Remote; USD 121,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium health insurance

HSA

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Stock options

Home office budget

Flexible time off

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, focused on building and operating platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced.

You will design and own always-on environments across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and services, enabling self-service demos, real-world validation, and scalable product experiences for internal teams and customer demos. Remote - USA, compensation in USD.

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

Kubernetes

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

CI/CD

Linux

Communication

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, focused on building and operating platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced.

You will design and own always-on environments across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and services, enabling self-service demos, real-world validation, and scalable product experiences for internal teams and customer demos. Remote - USA, compensation in USD.