Vannevar

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Security Platform

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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.
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About Vannevar

51-200 employees
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