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Platform Engineer
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Posted:
1 October 2026 (20 hours ago)
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Application Deadline:
29 December 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
DPP is seeking a Platform Engineer for an opportunity with our client in the cybersecurity industry.
Work Location: Fully remote
Work Authorization: US Citizen; must be able to obtain/maintain U.S. security clearance
Position Summary:
Click the apply button to learn more about this position (#26-01178).
DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D
Work Location: Fully remote
Work Authorization: US Citizen; must be able to obtain/maintain U.S. security clearance
Position Summary:
- As a Platform Engineer youll be the technical backbone of the company.
- Youll own the product architecture write production code daily and make the foundational technical decisions that everything else gets built on.
- This is a hands-on high-autonomy role for someone who wants to build a company from the ground floor with the maturity and ambition to grow into a CTO as we scale.
- This role is uniquely suited for someone at the intersection of:
- Deep firsthand experience with the DoDs Authority to Operate (ATO) process.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals are necessary. Architect systems ship production code and building things that scale.
- A conviction that AI development tools are a force multiplier. You will use them daily.
- Own the full technical stack from day one architecture infrastructure deployment and product development.
- Build tools that make the ATO process faster more transparent and less painful for defense software teams.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools (Codex Claude Code Cursor etc.) as a core part of your workflow.
- Collaborate directly with DoD stakeholders compliance teams and end users.
- Evaluate build-or-buy trade-offs select the technology stack and establish engineering practices.
- Contribute to security documentation architecture diagrams and compliance artifacts for government authorization.
- U.S. Citizenship; capable of obtaining and holding a U.S. security clearance (active clearance is a plus).
- Direct experience with the DoD ATO process youve shepherded a system through authorization worked with ISSMs/ISSOs or built tools in this space.
- 5 years of professional software development with demonstrated ability to ship production systems.
- Proficiency with modern development stacks (cloud-native containers CI/CD IaC) and at least one major language (Python Go TypeScript Rust etc.).
- Active and enthusiastic user of AI-powered development tools.
- Experience with NIST RMF STIG compliance or FedRAMP authorization frameworks.
- Prior work at a defense tech startup or DoD software factory (Kessel Run Platform One AI2C Army SWF etc.).
- Familiarity with GovCloud environments (AWS GovCloud Azure Government IL4/IL5).
- Background in DevSecOps automated security scanning SBOM generation continuous monitoring.
- Experience building or contributing to open-source compliance or security tooling.
Click the apply button to learn more about this position (#26-01178).
DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D
Required Experience:
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