Senior Platform Engineer: Self-Service Environments (Remote)

Front Door Defense; United States; On-site; USD 148,750 - 201,250; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Company-paid premiums

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Flexible Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Conference travel

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 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.

Qualifications

• US citizenship and eligibility to obtain a clearance.
• Strong platform engineering, DevOps, or infra software background.
• Cloud experience with Azure; Kubernetes expertise.
• CI/CD and deployment pipeline proficiency.
• Experience with multi-tenant environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate always-on environments for demos and internal use.
• Build feature branches and preview environments for UX feedback.
• Enable internal dogfooding through long-running deployments of UDS products.
• Integrate core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services.
• Create shared, reproducible infrastructure to reduce local setups.
• Support paths toward self-service demo and trial environments.
• Improve system reliability through real-world usage and validation.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and UX for realistic environments.
• Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions on environments.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Azure

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux/Unix

Distributed systems

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Docker

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 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.