Senior Software Engineer - Virtual Machines (RD222)

Defense Unicorns · Remote, United States · All 49 Defense Unicorns jobs

Pay shown$148,750 to $201,250 a yearRemoteContract

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Advertised pay
$148,750 to $201,250 a year
Checker · last seen live 06 Nov 2026
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Advertised pay
$148,750 to $201,250 a year
Work pattern
Remote
Employment
Contract
Level
Senior
Posted
22 Oct 2026
Age
Posted 15 days ago (since 22 Oct)
Source
Employer's own page, Greenhouse
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Required skills

  • Leadership

Nice to have

  • Kubernetes
  • Networking
  • Observability
  • Linux
  • Communication Skills
  • Fault Finding
  • Security
  • UX design
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Terraform

About the job

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: Defense Unicorns is building UDS VM, a new product that enables Mission Heroes to securely deploy, operate, and manage virtual machines alongside containerized workloads within the UDS platform. Many mission-critical applications cannot easily move to containers because of operating system dependencies, vendor requirements, or existing approvals.

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