Data Platform Backend Engineer

Vannevar Labs supports people on the front lines by building tools that deter and de-escalate conflict with America's adversaries. We build software and hardware for this mission that enable our customers to maintain maritime vigilance, disrupt misinformation, and collect non-traditional intelligence. In strategic competition, the intelligence and actions that shape conflict occur well before war itself. We build tools to win this fight now.

This mission has become urgent. The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology. As a team, we believe in public service and that our democracy and government improve only if we put serious, collective effort into improving them, including the technology our government uses. 

Since our founding in 2019, we have grown to support a wide range of missions and capabilities across all U.S. service branches, multiple combatant commands, partner nations, and the intelligence community. We have been profitable since 2021, and are backed by investors including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72, Costanoa, and Felicis.

Data Platform Backend Engineer

The data platform organization is focused on meeting the data needs of a growing engineering group at Vannevar Labs. Our focus is on making it easier for product engineers inside of Vannevar Labs to leverage a diverse and growing corpus of data, by building centralized data orchestration, data storage, and data serving infrastructure.  

You will be a part of a small team of 4-6 engineers focused on building data storage and serving infrastructure to support the needs of product engineers. You’ll work closely with Data Engineers who build and manage data pipelines, to ensure data is available reliably and in real time. You’ll identify common use cases across datasets and applications, and build abstractions to support those use cases. You’ll own and influence organizational direction for storage solutions, including caching and persistence data stores, which currently include Redis, Postgres, OpenSearch and VectorDBs.  

What You’ll Do 

• Develop back-end services and API to support the needs of Vannevar Labs’ growing product portfolio
• Design and implement data access patterns and retrieval abstractions, that work across datasets and products  
• Maintain a keen eye on scalability of our datastores, as our data holdings are constantly growing.
• Focus on performance, ensuring that products have low-latency access to core data.
• Focus on the operational health of the systems you own, by constantly improving observability, reducing tech debt, and participating in the team’s on-call process. 

Qualifications 

• 2+ years of experience in software development building distributed systems and services
• 2+ years of experience with a variety of data stores, like PostGres, Elasticsearch, Vector data stores, Redis, and others
• 2+ years of experience maintaining production systems and services, including on-call and SRE support
• You must be a US resident or citizen. 

What we offer

The salary range for this position is $130,000 - $180,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Vannevar Labs is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!

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