3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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.
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About Vannevar
Vannevar Labs builds AI-driven mission software for U.S. defense, intelligence, and national security agencies, used for targeting, planning, and decision support. It sells government-focused software products powered by large adversarial data sets, including an agentic AI platform that models adversary behavior and recommends courses of action. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with deployments across U.S. government programs.