Data Engineer (Mid) Jobs

This is a remote role with occasional travel requirements (approximately every 60 days).

What You'll Be Responsible for:

• The selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background check (“CBI”) and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret-level DoD security clearance (Top Secret preferred).

• Architecting, deploying, and operating Kafka/Redpanda/other data streaming solutions on Kubernetes, emphasizing declarative baseline and abstracting complexity from day 2 operations

• Designing data workflows, pipelines, and pathways to support ETL, V&V, and data exchange of sensitive information across AWS cloud and on-prem

• Implementing systems engineering principles to ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of data layer systems, including backup and recovery strategies

• Working with platform team to implement best practices for configuration management, security, and performance optimization within Kubernetes and AWS environments

• Working with the platform team to automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using tools such as Terraform

• Working with cybersecurity SMEs to incorporate best practices and techniques to defend our data layer against potential threats

• Ensuring that our data layer systems are compliant with industry and DoD regulations and standards

• Staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies related to Kubernetes, containerization, and data engineering

Qualifications for the Ideal Unicorn:

• (Bonus Points) Experience with machine learning and generative AI models

• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining production data pipelines, databases, and data exchange services on Kubernetes

• Experience in designing, deploying, and operating Kafka / Redpanda data streaming solutions on Kubernetes

• Experience in creating data pipelines from scratch with the ability to process data in large volumes and manage data stores

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes

• Knowledge of systems engineering principles to ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of data layer systems

• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, AWS Cloud Security

• Familiarity with cybersecurity principles and best practices for securing data layer systems

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas to both technical and non-technical team members

Who We Are: Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

What We Do: We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Who We Serve: Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

What We Work On:

• GitOps
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
• Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
• CNCF projects and open source products and packages
• Building and improving security delivery
• Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
• Containers
• Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
• Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping

Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy:

Health:

• Disability Insurance
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Premiums are 100% Company Paid
• Life Insurance
• Health Reimbursement Account

Financial:

• Home Office Setup Budget
• Company Stock Options
• 401k with Employer Contribution (Regardless of Employee Contribution)

Leave:

• Paid Parental Leave
• Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)

Learning:

• Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
• Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions

Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.