Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of new Cyber products in support of national security missions, focusing on the end-to-end development of the Cyber Recon platform and working directly with users in mission environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end development of Cyber Recon and adjacent products (backend systems, data pipelines, and user-facing applications)
• Build intuitive, high-performance interfaces for exploring and acting on complex cyber data
• Work directly with users in mission environments to understand needs, iterate quickly, and deploy into real environments
• Design systems to ingest, normalize, and analyze large-scale external attack surface data
• Translate ambiguous problems into concrete product and engineering decisions
• Drive product and technical direction for Cyber
• Deploy and support software in secure, constrained environments
• Travel 2-3 times per month to customer sites (primarily East Coast)

Skills

• 10+ years building and shipping production software systems
• Strong full-stack skills (backend systems, APIs, data modeling, modern frontend)
• Comfortable moving between frontend, backend, and product decisions on a daily basis
• Experience building user-facing products with strong usability and performance
• Experience operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with high ownership
• Experience building cybersecurity products or conducting cyber operations in government environments
• Familiarity with external attack surface management, internet-scale data collection, or adversary infrastructure analysis
• Prior experience working with classified systems or secure deployments
• Ability and willingness to obtain a CI Polygraph required
• Currently holds or previously held a CI Polygraph

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

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