Senior / Staff Platform Engineer

Role Description: 

We are actively seeking skilled and motivated Senior and/or Staff Platform Engineers to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development, maintenance, and user/community engagement of our platform and its upstream open source dependencies.

This role spans multiple levels, from Senior to Staff, within our organization, requiring a strong understanding of system architecture, problem-solving skills, and the ability to guide junior to mid-level engineers.

As a Senior or Staff Platform Engineer within our organization, you will join a team of dedicated unicorns who are focused on advancing freedom and independence globally.

Responsibilities:

You will create and maintain tools that are the crucial link between Application (Capability) Providers and disparate Production Environments.

In this position, you will be expected to:

Engineering Collaboration:

• Create and nurture an engineering environment that fosters collaboration, sharing of ideas, and cross-functional teamwork.
• Actively participate in Defense Unicorns' all-remote environment, contributing to the open source presence and engaging with the team.

Productization and Reusability:

• Productize solutions to ensure their reusability across different runtime environments.
• Manage and contribute to projects that improve the delivery of mission value through effective planning, development, testing, and version support.

Technology Tracking and Integration:

• Track and evaluate emerging technologies, making determinations and recommendations for integration into existing Defense Unicorns products to enhance mission impact.
• Solve new problems that may require in-depth knowledge from a variety of technologies.

Communication and Documentation:

• Communicate proactively and routinely with coworkers and all team members on key product or project milestones, new feature work, the overall product roadmap, user interviews/discovery efforts, and any issues/blockers.
• Participate actively as a code reviewer for cross-company and cross-team initiatives and products.

Pay Range:

• Senior: $180,000 - $219,000
• Staff: $209,000 - $279,225

The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive, and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:

• Strong open-source presence with a track record of contribution or maintenance or projects in the CNCF, OpenSSF, or other foundations.
• Demonstrated ability to develop software in Go, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience managing platform and infrastructure with Terraform or equivalent technologies.
• Proven systems thinking applied to strong CI/CD strategies for efficient software delivery.
• Experience working in a remote environment that encourages asynchronous PR reviews and strong GitOps practices.
• Familiarity with core technologies we leverage such as Grafana, Istio, Loki, Neuvector, Pepr, Prometheus, Promtail, Authservice, Keycloak, Velero, and Zarf.
• Proven experience in creating collaborative engineering environments that encourage idea sharing.

If you are passionate about advancing freedom and independence through technology and possess the skills and experience required for this role, we would love to hear from you!