Senior Engineer - Data Platform
Remoteremotesenior$21K – $42K
via Greenhouse
About this role
Role Description
Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the founding team of a new product capability being built from the ground up. In this role, you will work as a core member of the UDS Data team — collaborating directly with product leadership and engaging with defense customers to translate real operational data problems into shipped software. The gap between a customer conversation and code running in production is short, and you are expected to own that entire arc.
This role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across the full stack — from designing and building features to deploying and validating them in the environments where they need to run.…
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