Software Engineer (FedD105)

defenseunicorns; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in the United States

Travel 10–15%

Medical dental vision coverage

HSA contributions

401(k) retirement plan

Company stock options

Home office stipend

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

defenseunicorns is seeking a mid to senior software engineer to modernize legacy on-prem software into a cloud-native platform for a U.S. federal government client.

You will design and build scalable data pipelines and distributed services in a fully remote, asynchronous environment with limited on-site expectations. The role emphasizes translating requirements into durable designs, refactoring monoliths into microservices, implementing secure access controls, and advancing CI/CD and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering (mid) or 5+ years (senior).
• Expert-level in Go, TypeScript, or Python with idiomatic, testable code.
• Strong system design, relational DB modeling, indexing, query optimization, and modern API development beyond CRUD.
• Hands-on cloud experience with AWS or Azure and orchestration tools like Argo Workflows.
• Proven ability to decompose complex apps into microservices with RESTful APIs.
• Experience implementing authorization, data governance, and security telemetry across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into concrete designs with data architects and stakeholders.
• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using cloud-native tooling.
• Refactor monolithic on-prem systems into microservices with lightweight APIs and orchestration.
• Implement authentication, authorization, identity management, and RBAC/ABAC frameworks.
• Drive engineering best practices around microservices, testing, observability, and CI/CD.
• Produce comprehensive documentation, participate in architectural and code reviews, mentor engineers.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Python

Tools

Argo Workflows

Terraform

Pulumi

GitOps

Kubernetes

Job description

Role overview

A mid to senior level engineering role focused on modernizing legacy, on-prem software into a cloud-native platform serving a U.S. federal government client. The position centers on designing and building scalable data pipelines and distributed services while partnering closely with analysts, architects, platform engineers, and external stakeholders. U.S. citizenship is required, and the work supports mission-critical defense systems in a fully remote, asynchronous environment with limited on-site expectations.

Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous product and mission requirements into concrete technical designs in partnership with data architects, analysts, and stakeholders.
• Design, build, and maintain complex ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest, transform, and load data from diverse sources using cloud-native tooling.
• Refactor monolithic, on-prem systems into independently deployable microservices with lightweight APIs and modern orchestration patterns.
• Implement authentication, authorization, identity management, and RBAC/ABAC frameworks to protect sensitive data and enforce compliance.
• Drive engineering best practices around microservice design, automated testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Produce comprehensive documentation, participate in architectural reviews and code reviews, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

• Three or more years (mid) or five or more years (senior) of professional software engineering experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one modern language such as Go, TypeScript, or Python, with a track record of writing idiomatic, testable code.
• Strong knowledge of system design, relational database modeling, indexing, query optimization, and modern API development beyond basic CRUD.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and orchestration tooling such as Argo Workflows.
• Demonstrated success decomposing a complex application into small services that communicate via RESTful or similar APIs.
• Practical experience implementing authorization, data governance, security telemetry, and policy enforcement across enterprise systems.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi, GitOps practices, and CNCF ecosystem projects.
• Background in Department of Defense software acquisition or sustainment modernization efforts.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote within the United States, with approximately 10-15% travel expected.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company-paid premiums, plus HSA contributions, life insurance and disability coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and a home office stipend.
• Flexible paid time off, federal holidays, an extended Thanksgiving break, and a year-end holiday shutdown, plus paid parental leave.
• Reimbursement budget for approved training, subscriptions, and relevant conferences.
• Compensation range of $123,250 to $166,750 USD, benchmarked nationally across U.S. locations.