FDE Data Engineer - Space

Defense Unicorns is hiring a forward-deployed data engineer to deploy, integrate, and operate UDS Data Capability in Department of Defense environments. The role supports mission users, builds data integrations and pipelines across classification boundaries, and brings field feedback back to product and engineering. Responsibilities Deploy and configure UDS Data Capability in the mission hero's environment. Stand up the UDS Store (Iceberg, Rook/Ceph, pgvector, Postgres), wire up UDS Transit for air-gap data movement, configure UDS Govern policies (Pepr/Lula), and integrate UDS Connect (Strimzi/Kafka) where streaming or legacy connectors are requiredBuild and support integrations with existing mission systems. Connect UDS Data Capability to legacy databases, flat-file drops, SOAP/REST endpoints, message buses, existing object storage, and identity providers (Keycloak, mission-side SSO). Prior experience integrating with these types of systems is more relevant than experience building on