Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Edge Infrastructure team, working on UDS Image Factory. This team builds developer tooling for declaratively composing complete, mission-ready system images for air-gapped environments.

In Short

• Building custom tooling that composes operating systems, Kubernetes, applications, and configuration into a single deployable artifact.
• Developing and maintaining image build pipelines (container and VM/system images).
• Working with OS-level components, base images, and system configuration.
• Building CLI tooling for defining and generating system variants.
• Ensuring artifacts are deterministic, reproducible, and fully self-contained at build time.
• Supporting software supply chain security (SBOMs, signing, provenance).
• Automating compliance requirements (e.g., STIGs).
• Enabling deployments in airgapped, offline-first, and constrained environments.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in a modern programming language (Golang preferred).
• Experience with Linux systems, containers, or working close to the OS.
• Familiarity with build systems, packaging, or image creation (or strong interest in learning).
• Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration (or strong interest).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure tooling, or platform engineering concepts.
• Understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and debugging across system boundaries.
• Ability to break down complex problems and deliver practical solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision insurance with premiums 100% company paid.
• 401k Retirement Plan and Company Stock Options.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions and conferences.