Senior Platform Engineer - Army
Defense Unicorns
$148,750–$201,250from the description
Jul 10, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role focused on building and maintaining persistent, shared environments that support internal product use, UX validation, and customer demonstrations across a suite of defense-oriented software products. The work centers on integrating distributed system components — spanning fleet management, edge management, and OS-level services — and reducing dependence on ad-hoc local setups through reproducible, self-service infrastructure. Best suited to engineers with strong Kubernetes, Azure, and GitOps experience who are comfortable working across application, infrastructure, and networking boundaries.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 19,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 11,700–29,200
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 (7)
Clearance: the JD requires US citizenship and eligibility to obtain a clearance (not a current active clearance), so the clearance requirement is set to None. An active Secret clearance is listed under Preferred Qualifications and is therefore preferred, not a hard gate.
Terraform and Pulumi are listed as interchangeable Infrastructure-as-Code examples ('e.g., Terraform, Pulumi'); Terraform is named as the primary with Pulumi in alternatives.
Zarf and UDS appear only under Preferred Qualifications — they are Defense Unicorns' own open-source tooling and are nice-to-haves, not gates.
No overall years-of-experience figure is stated in the JD; total experience requirement is unspecified.
The alt SOC (15-1244) is noted because the role has a meaningful infrastructure-operations dimension, but the primary framing — building shared environments, integration layers, and platform capabilities — is squarely software/platform engineering (15-1252).
Compensation is quoted as a national range applying across all US geographic locations.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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