Vannevar Labs builds next generation defense software for the public servants keeping our country safe. As a team, we exist because we believe in public service, and we think that our democracy and government improve only if we put serious, collective effort into improving them, including the technology our government uses.
This mission has become urgent. Ukraine is engaged in a war for survival with Russia. China regularly flies nuclear-capable bombers into Taiwan and Japan’s airspace. The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology. We build software to support these missions, including providing battlefield information to allies, identifying malign activity, and helping the US deter and deescalate conflict.
We are a profitable growth startup with some of the best defense investors in the world, including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72, and enterprise tech investors Costanoa and Felicis.
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to head our Collection Platform organization, specializing in data collection and processing to support OSINT (open-source intelligence) workflows in the US DoD. You will be leading 3 engineering teams: News, Social, and Cyber in the Platform Engineering organization.
Vannevar Labs’ core products rely almost exclusively on your team's ability to maintain a scalable collection apparatus, quickly respond to new data requests, and creatively gain access to hard-to-collect sources of publicly available information. In addition, the teams are growing quickly and your ability to build a team around new initiatives is paramount.
What You’ll Do
- Team Building: Develop and lead a strong cross-functional team focused on data collection and exploitation to power all VL products.
- Data Product Development: Design and build scalable, reliable data-intensive applications for collecting and warehousing publicly available information.
- Technology Improvement: Identify opportunities for automation and enhancement of our core data collection platform from various online sources.
- Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, product engineering teams and mission success, leveraging your communication skills to ensure effective teamwork.
What we look for
- Proven experience in engineering leadership roles, either as a tech lead or engineering manager.
- Strong technical expertise in building ETL pipelines and designing APIs.
- Ability to build and scale creative solutions to challenging data access and collection problems
- Understanding of managed attribution and operational security best practices.
- High ethical standards for handling sensitive data, ensuring adherence to data privacy rules and compliance standards.
- Willingness to travel up to 15%.
- Excellent communication skills, teamwork abilities, and project ownership.
- U.S. Citizenship (required to access U.S.-only data systems).
- Experience in data scraping or a strong desire to learn.
What we offer
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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