1 month ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Base Salary
$150k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and scale Vannevar’s centralized authentication and authorization platform, including tenant isolation across customer environments and classified deployments.
- Own the self-service platform and interfaces for user, group, and permission management.
- Build tooling and visualizations that help developers, administrators, and mission users understand and validate access permissions.
- Own and evolve platform management interfaces, including the feature-flag system.
- Partner with product engineering teams to build shared authorization and resource-sharing capabilities.
- Shape the Security Platform roadmap by driving scalable platform capabilities and improving developer experience.
Requirements
- Require 7+ years of software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating scalable backend systems and delivering full-stack features through production.
- Require strong backend expertise with one or more modern backend languages such as Python or Java, relational databases such as PostgreSQL, distributed systems, and API design.
- Require comfort with frontend development such as React, TypeScript, and Node.js when needed, with an emphasis on polished customer-facing experiences.
- Require experience with identity and authentication concepts and platforms, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWTs, session management, RBAC/ABAC, SSO, Keycloak, OpenFGA, or comparable systems.
- Require product intuition, pragmatic technical decision-making, and the ability to balance user needs with engineering tradeoffs in ambiguous environments.
- Require strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills across product, design, security, and infrastructure teams.
- Active security clearance or the ability to obtain one, willingness to travel to users, and prior user-facing product experience are nice to have.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Remote-friendly work arrangement with WeWork access.
- Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide time off at the end of each year.
- 401(k) match and lifestyle and wellbeing stipends.
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty.
- Fully paid parental leave.
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.
