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 The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology.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.
About the role
We're looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead our data platform engineering team, specializing in data pipelines, data warehousing, and APIs that support developers building tools for the US DoD.
You'll be tasked with leading a growing team responsible for structuring a diverse collection of multimodal datasets and providing various access patterns for internal developers including multi-media semantic search, entity search, and relational data primitives. This team plays a crucial role in powering most of Vannevar Labs' mature products, while also supporting new product initiatives. You will enable internal developers to move faster by solving common problems, reduce duplication of systems, and build the foundation that makes our products successful.
What you’ll do
- Data Platform Development: Design and build scalable, reliable data pipelines, warehouses, and search capabilities for supporting internal developers
- Technology Improvement: Identify opportunities for improving developer experience and time-to-market for product engineers building with core datasets.
- Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, DevOps, and product engineering teams, leveraging your communication skills to ensure effective teamwork.
- Team Building: Develop and lead a strong cross-functional team that forms strong partnerships with developers across the organization.
What we look for
- 3+ years of experience in leading platform engineering teams
- 10+ years of experience as a backend, data, or search engineer
- Strong technical expertise in building ETL pipelines, data warehousing and designing APIs.
- Ability to deliver scalable and reliable platform solutions over a diverse collection of data types
- High ethical standards for handling sensitive data, ensuring adherence to data privacy rules and compliance standards.
- Willingness to travel to offsite and team syncs ~4 weeks per year
- Excellent communication skills, teamwork abilities, and project ownership.
- Proficiency coding with Python, TypeScript, or similar
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL, or other relational databases.
- Proficiency with Elasticsearch, or other search engines.
- Proficiency with software development in AWS or other cloud services.
What we offer
The salary range for this position is $200,000 - $240,000 + 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!
IMPORTANT NOTICE
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.
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What We Do
Since our founding in 2019, Vannevar Labs has been building software for the country's most critical national security problems. We believe our military service members and intelligence officers deserve access to the best technology American innovation can offer, and we are building great products for this mission. Our founders have 30 years of combined experience across national security, government sales, CIA, In-Q-Tel and the DoD. We're supported by a number of VCs, including Felicis, DFJ Growth, Point72, Costanoa, and General Catalyst.
Why Work With Us
We pride ourselves on being a team of passionate, low-ego professionals who share a commitment to excellence and a genuine concern for the people and projects we work on. Additionally, we pride ourselves on being a company that truly values its employees and their well being.
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