Senior Platform Engineer

Colorado Springsfull timeRemote

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senior

$149k–$201k

H1B: no

Defenseunicorns Senior Platform Engineer at Defenseunicorns responsible for building and operating persistent platform environments for development, testing, and demos. Focus on system integration and reliability.

Responsibilities

Designing and operating always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access
Building feature branch / preview environments to support UX and rapid feedback loops
Enabling internal dogfooding through real, long-running deployments of UDS products
Integrating core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services
Reducing reliance on local environments by creating shared, reproducible infrastructure
Supporting pathways toward self-service demo and trial environmentsImproving system reliability by enabling continuous, real-world usage and validationPartnering with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios
Design, build, and maintain scalable platform environments that support development, testing, and demos
Own the reliability and usability of shared environments used across the team
Collaborate closely with software engineers to integrate platform and product components
Identify and close gaps in system integration across services and infrastructure layers
Build and maintain infrastructure as code for reproducible environments
Improve developer experience by reducing friction in environment setup and usage

Qualification

Strong understanding of CI/CDProficiency with Linux/Unix systems

Preferred

Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering
Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems
Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments
Proficiency with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment pipelines
Experience integrating distributed systems across multiple services
Comfortable working across system boundaries (application, infrastructure, networking)
Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems