Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), C-UAS
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Defense UnicornsDefense software
Remote - USAFull-Time
Salary148,750 - 201,250 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLSQLKafkaKubernetesLinuxTerraform
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance required.
- Experience in tactical edge and interoperable mission environments, including TAK Server administration, ATAK/WinTAK, tactical communications, and disconnected or air-gapped systems.
- Production experience with lakehouse technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi; object storage such as Ceph or S3-compatible storage; PostgreSQL; and analytical query engines such as Trino, DuckDB, ClickHouse, or Spark SQL.
- Experience with streaming and data integration, including Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms, stream processing, change data capture, and legacy-system integration.
- Hands-on experience building, scheduling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and recovering production data pipelines with Airflow, Dagster, Argo Workflows, or comparable tools.
- Working knowledge of data governance, cataloging, access control, auditability, REST catalogs, ABAC/RBAC, OIDC/OAuth, and data lineage.
- Strong SQL proficiency and experience designing data models and schemas for analytical and operational workloads.
- Hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including deployments, operators, CRDs, storage classes, networking, and troubleshooting.
- Strong Linux, containerization, networking, TLS, and secrets-management fundamentals; experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi and GitOps deployment practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex integrations in secure, disconnected, or mission-constrained environments and work directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers through technical problem-solving, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and harden UDS Data Capability in mission environments, including UDS Store, UDS Transit, UDS Govern, and UDS Connect.
- Integrate the data platform with existing mission infrastructure, including sensors, computer-vision-enabled UAS interceptors, and C-UAS solutions.
- Build pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, catalog registration, model and dataset packaging, cross-domain transit, and eventual consistency in DDIL conditions.
- Operate deployed systems, including capacity, performance, backup and restore, observability, incident response, and upgrades.
- Generate STIG evidence, cATO documentation, FIPS validation notes, and policy mappings for IL4/IL5 requirements.
- Document issues, write postmortems, recommend operator improvements, and communicate field challenges to product and engineering teams.
- Develop runbooks, architecture documentation, working sessions, and knowledge-transfer materials for mission teams.
- Mentor junior Data Engineer FDEs through complex problem-solving, design reviews, and technical knowledge sharing.
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