Software Engineer - Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Defense Unicorns, United States - Remote

The role

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Software Engineer to own the assessment, hardening, testing, and modernization of a Government-provided software-defined networking (SDN) baseline capability. You will join the Defense Unicorns Navy Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team and be responsible for understanding an unfamiliar codebase, improving its security and maintainability, and delivering a reliable software baseline that can be sustained as mission requirements evolve.

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Software Engineer - Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Defense Unicorns, United States - Remote

Posted pay

$149K–$201K

a year

Compared with similar jobs

This base pay is near the median for infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs that are remote in the US with no level in the job title.

Median: $169K a year
Other jobs in the group: 285

We compare the middle of each posted range. This is base pay as posted. The group does not include this job.

Location: United States - Remote
Work type: Remote
Level: Not given
Experience: 5+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
Kubernetes
C++
Bash
Helm
Linux
Posted: Oct 1, 2026
Last check: 5 h ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE

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