Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Defense Unicorns is seeking Software Engineers (Mid and Senior) to join their UDS Product Engineering team. The role involves collaborating with product managers, designers, and end users to build and deploy features and systems that impact mission outcomes, while contributing to design and implementation discussions.
Responsibilities
- Build, ship, and maintain features and systems that support mission-critical environments
- Contribute to system design, architecture, and implementation decisions
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Identify and reduce ambiguity in product and technical requirements
- Debug, optimize, and support production systems (including on-call rotation)
- Integrate with existing defense systems while ensuring interoperability and security compliance
- Contribute to and support the open source ecosystems we depend on
- Develop and maintain technical documentation (designs, runbooks, user guides)
- Participates in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation, owning incident response, troubleshooting, and coordination to ensure reliable production systems
- Own architectural decisions and ensure technical quality across systems
- Lead cross-team initiatives and complex technical efforts
- Influence product direction through deep user and system understanding
- Provide mentorship and raise the bar for engineering practices
Skills
- 3+ years (Mid) or 5+ years (Senior) experience in software engineering
- Proficiency in Go or other modern programming languages
- Strong understanding of system design, APIs, databases, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Experience building tools focused on software lifecycle and delivery
- Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts (Controllers, Operators, CRDs)
- Experience with supply chain security (SBOMs, signing, scanning, etc.)
- Ability to solve complex problems and deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
- Paid Parental Leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Company Overview
Defense Unicorns is a software startup that provides open-source software and AI capabilities for national security systems. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.defenseunicorns.com.