Backend Engineer, Security Platform

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs is a defense company that combines top engineering talent with decades of mission experience to deliver state-of-the-art technology to those in need. They specialize in a foreign text workflow platform, Decrypt, designed for national secu...

Aerospace & Defense
11-50
$87M raised

Description

  • Drive implementation, adoption, and evolution of core permissions infrastructure and shared platform services.
  • Lead projects to build and scale foundational authentication and authorization capabilities.
  • Own backend services, authorization engines, and data models for identity and access management.
  • Partner with engineers across the organization to develop standardized security platform solutions.
  • Collaborate with compliance teams and mission stakeholders to define and enforce access control, data protection, and system integrity standards.
  • Influence architecture, technology selection, and engineering standards across the company.
  • Enable reusable identity and permissions capabilities for new customer workflows and products.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend development experience.
  • Hands-on experience building identity and access management systems used by other product teams.
  • Strong system design skills, including tradeoffs among performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
  • Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives spanning multiple systems and driving adoption through influence.
  • Security-first mindset and comfort working with discipline in sensitive environments.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, cross-functional partners, and end users.
  • U.S. Person status required for access to U.S.-only data systems.

Benefits

  • Salary of $150,000–$215,000 plus equity.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Remote-friendly work environment with WeWork access.
  • Unlimited PTO, federal holiday downtime, and company-wide year-end time off.
  • 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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