Defense Unicorns
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National Security
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How Defense Unicorns hires
Truth index
B 70/100
Median time to fill
69 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Defense Unicorns scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 69 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Defense Unicorns is a software technology firm headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and was established in 2021. The company provides the Unicorn Delivery Service platform, which facilitates the secure packaging and deployment of cloud-native applications to airgapped, edge, and cloud environments. It operates as a remote-first organization primarily serving the United States Department of Defense and national security agencies through open-source DevSecOps and compliance automation solutions.
News
Defense Unicorns Names Lauren Knausenberger Chief Business Officer
/PRNewswire/ -- Defense Unicorns, the leader in airgap-native software delivery and national security missions, today announced that Lauren Knausenberger has...
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Defense Unicorns and Paramify Unite to Give More Nationally Vital Organizations the Secure Foundation They Need to Succeed
/PRNewswire/ -- Defense Unicorns, the leader in airgap-native software delivery and national security missions, today announced a strategic partnership with...
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Defense Unicorns and Army C5ISR Center Fast-Track Secure and Mission-Ready Software to Soldiers
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Defense Unicorns: $136 Million Series B Raised At $1+ Billion Valuation For Security Platform
Defense Unicorns, a provider of software delivery technology for disconnected and high-security environments, said it has raised a $136 million Series B round led by Bain Capital's Tech Opportunities fund, pushing the company past a $1 billion valuation.
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Defense Unicorns bags $136 million in funding to deliver secure military software updates
Defense Unicorns bags $136 million in funding to deliver secure military software updates - SiliconANGLE
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DEFENSE UNICORNS RAISES $136 MILLION SERIES B TO BUILD THE SOFTWARE BACKBONE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR
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BAE Systems and Defense Unicorns selected to provide scalable secure software delivery solution for the U.S. Department of Defense
--BAE Systems, a leading provider of defense systems integration and advanced DevSecOps services, in collaboration with Defense Unicorns, a pioneer in secure software delivery platforms today announced that their joint solution has achieved "Awardable" st
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Defense Unicorns over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
130
Postings analysed
79
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python22%
Go9%
Bash8%
TypeScript8%
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster4%
Flink3%
pgvector3%
Angular3%
Databases
Apache Iceberg3%
PostgreSQL3%
Apache Hudi3%
ClickHouse3%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes100%
AWS100%
Azure100%
GCP100%
AI & ML
LLM3%
Mistral1%
Gemma1%
Llama1%
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Full Defense Unicorns tech stack
130 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$185k
Typical range
$113k – $276k
Open positions
36
24
Jobs
Intern
4.2%
Junior
4.2%
Middle
4.2%
Senior
45.8%
Staff
4.2%
Architect
37.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | $158k | $158k |
| Junior | 1 | $113k | $113k |
| Middle | 1 | $127k | $127k |
| Senior | 11 | $201k | $140k – $242k |
| Staff | 1 | $201k | $201k |
| Architect | 9 | $201k | $185k – $276k |
Highest paying role
Director of Discovery & Framing
$276k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Defense Unicorns
By role, level and city, against the market · 36 jobs with pay
People
Thomas Runyon
Executive Officer
Courtney Barno
Executive Officer
Scott Lamphear
Executive Officer
La'Tise Tangherlini
Executive Officer
Robert Slaughter
Executive Officer, Director
Marco DeMeireles
Director
Andrew Greene
Director
Jeffrey McCoy
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
50
8 opened / 15 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
69 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
27%
Backend
14%
Sales
11% ▼
Marketing
9%
Leadership
7% ▼
Solutions
7% ▲
Actively hiring for DevOps (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added TCP/IP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Chaos Engineering to stack
Oct 2026
Added C++ to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Manila
Sep 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added GitHub Actions to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tailwind CSS to stack
Sep 2026
Added ServiceNow to stack
Sep 2026
Added Okta to stack
Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack
Sep 2026
Added Backstage to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
5
Countries
2
Busiest office
Colorado Springs
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Colorado Springs
United States
HQ
Colorado Springs
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $201k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Springfield
United States
Sales office
Springfield, VA
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Data Science, DevOps, Leadership
San Francisco
United States
Sales office
United States - Remote
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $185k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions
San Antonio
United States
Regional office
San Antonio, Texas
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $167k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Manila
Philippines
Sales office
National Capital Region
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $201k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
Denver
United States
Regional office
Denver
Boston
United States
Regional office
Boston, Massachusetts
Phoenix
United States
Regional office
Phoenix, Arizona
Virginia Beach
United States
Regional office
Virginia Beach, Virginia
El Segundo
United States
Regional office
El Segundo, California
Fort Meade
United States
Regional office
Fort Meade, Maryland
Arlington
United States
Regional office
Arlington, Virginia
Jobs
$149k – $201k per year • Equity • In office • Colorado Springs
Terraform
GCP
Helm
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Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Linux
Unix
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$149k – $201k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Secret • 7+ years exp • United States
Python
JavaScript
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Management
Agile
Apply
$171k – $231k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • United States
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
GitHub
Management
Notion
Google Workspace
Agile
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$123k – $167k per year • Equity • In office • Top Secret • San Antonio
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
IAM
Linux
Unix
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≈ $110k – $202k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • United States
Python
Go
C#
FastAPI
C#
.NET
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Nginx
Platform Engineering
Amazon EKS
Linux
Unix
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$123k – $167k per year • Equity • In office • Secret • San Antonio
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
IAM
Linux
Unix
Apply
≈ $126k – $264k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • 8+ years exp • Springfield
AI Agents
RAG
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenShift
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
GitLab
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
Zero Trust
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≈ $118k – $225k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • 7+ years exp • Springfield
Python
SQL
NATS
Apache Kafka
Redpanda
AI/ML
Dagster
Embeddings
AI Agents
RAG
Semantic Search
Semantic Search
Knowledge Graph
DevOps
Rest API
Terraform
GCP
OpenShift
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Argo Workflows
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
Zero Trust
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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≈ $168k – $315k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • 7+ years exp • Springfield
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenShift
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
GitLab
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
Management
Agile
Scrum
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$149k – $201k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • TS/SCI • United States
Python
Terraform
GCP
Helm
GitHub Actions
Kustomize
Pulumi
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
GitHub
GitLab
Management
Agile
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$149k – $201k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Secret • 5+ years exp • United States
Python
C++
Bash
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Chaos Engineering
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
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≈ $116k – $225k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • Springfield
Python
LangGraph
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Model Context Protocol
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
Semantic Kernel
LLM
RAG
NVIDIA NIM
OpenAI
Anthropic
NVIDIA NeMo
Human-in-the-Loop
Structured Outputs
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenShift
Helm
Kustomize
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
Git
AWS
Kubernetes
GitLab
Management
Confluence
Jira
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Financials
Est. Annual Revenue
$3M
2021
Total raised
$181.9M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
13
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2026 | $136M | Details |
| Grant | 2025 | $140k | Details |
| Grant | 2025 | $75k | Details |
| Grant | 2025 | $1.2M | Details |
| Grant | 2024 | $4.9M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $35M | Details |
| Grant | 2024 | $1.8M | Details |
| Grant | 2023 | $75k | Details |
| Grant | 2023 | $75k | Details |
| Grant | 2022 | $1.2M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | $504k | Details |
| Grant | 2022 | $747k | Details |
| Grant | 2021 | $50k | Details |