Defense Unicorns is a contractor for the U.S. government, seeking a Mid to Senior Software Engineer to transform legacy software into a cloud-native platform. The role involves designing and building scalable data pipelines, ensuring data quality, and collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver projects effectively.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with data architects, analysts, and a wide variety of stakeholders to translate ambiguous product requirements into technical solutions
- Design, build, and maintain complex ETL/ELT workflows
- Implement security protocols, including authentication and authorization
- Create optimized transformations to clean, enrich, and model data, utilizing cloud-native tools
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance, maintaining metadata and lineage
- Help refactor and modernize existing on-prem systems into distributed, cloud-based services
- Contribute to the design of authentication, identity management, and RBAC/ABAC frameworks
- Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and ongoing technical improvements
- Drive best practices in microservice design, testing, observability, and CI/CD automation
- Collaborate closely with partner company engineers and stakeholders to devise the best solutions for our Mission Heroes
- Collaborate with the Defense Unicorns product team sharing improvements and growth opportunities for future projects
- Comfortable in an asynchronous, all remote environment
- Actively participate in communities of practice via Slack and Github Issues
- Integrate software products with existing defense systems, ensuring seamless interoperability and adherence to security protocols
- Own architecture decisions and ensure technical quality across the engineering team
- Develop comprehensive documentation, including design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance guides
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to inform product enhancements and innovation
- Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team
- Communicate effectively with all levels of engineers and stakeholders internal and external to the company
- Influence product direction through deep understanding of user needs and system constraints
Requirements:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Experience with software engineering
- Ability to write idiomatic, testable code in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, TypeScript, Python)
- Strong understanding of system design, API development, workflow orchestration, relational databases, and cloud platforms
- Deep knowledge of database design, schema design, indexing, and query optimization
- Experience leading a team through the decomposition of a complex monolithic application design into small, independent services
- Modern API design experience, beyond basic CRUD operations
- Experience with implementation of authorization and data governance, security telemetry pipelines, policy enforcement, and role-based access control
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Analytical, problem-solving mindset with a high attention to detail
- Experience working proactively, managing time efficiently, and thriving in a vibrant remote work environment
- 3+ years (mid) or 5+ years (senior) experience with software engineering
- Experience building a software tool with core focuses on software lifecycle and management
- Experience with Argo Workflows
- Familiar with Core Kubernetes Concepts including but not limited to Controllers, Operators, and CRDs
- Passion for clean architecture, automation, and iterative modernization
- Familiar with Department of Defense acquisition or sustainment software modernization projects