Senior Platform Engineer at Defense Unicorns
$148,750–$201,250
Jun 29, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role focused on building and maintaining persistent, shared platform environments that support internal testing, product demos, and UX validation across a suite of Kubernetes-based software products. The work centers on system integration across fleet management, edge management, and OS-level components, with a goal of replacing ad-hoc local setups with reliable, reproducible infrastructure. Suits engineers experienced in Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines who are comfortable working across application, infrastructure, and networking boundaries.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $148,750–$201,250
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 21,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 12,700–31,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
All skills are drawn from the 'Preferred Experience and Qualifications' section, which is explicitly framed as preferred — the posting contains no separate hard-requirements or minimum-qualifications block. Every skill is therefore treated as preferred rather than a hard gate.
The posting requires U.S. citizenship (the employer is a U.S. government contractor), but does not gate on a specific security clearance level, so the clearance requirement is set to None.
The role sits at the boundary between platform/infrastructure engineering and product development. It clearly involves writing and shipping infrastructure-as-code and building shared environments (pointing to 15-1252), but also has a strong operational/environment-management dimension (15-1244). 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the JD emphasizes building, designing, and owning platform capabilities through code.
No minimum total years of experience are stated anywhere in the posting.
Compensation is quoted as a national range for remote-US positions: $148,750–$201,250 per year.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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