Vannevar Labs

Engineering Manager

• Lead the Decision Advantage team in designing, building, and shipping cutting-edge applications, services, and agents using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Postgres, and AWS.
• Partner with customers, mission owners, designers, and product teams to understand user workflows and drive concrete outcomes aligned with real-world operator workflows.
• Reduce friction and duplication across the team by building strong technical patterns, reusable services, and clear product engineering practices.
• Grow and mentor a high-performing team of full-stack engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on pragmatism, velocity, ownership, and mission impact.
• Collaborate with Design, Platform, and Product teams to deliver durable, reliable software.

Engineering Manager – Decision Advantage

Backend Engineer

• Develop innovative software systems that collect data from multiple online sources
• Gain and maintain access to hard-to-collect OSINT data
• Ensure the systems are scalable and robust, and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Collaborate with our mission team and product managers to translate user needs into data collection solutions
• Collaborate with product and platform engineering teams to ensure data delivery
• Improve existing data collection systems
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to peers

Senior Backend Engineer, Collection

People Operations

• Build a high-performance organization by partnering with exec team and functional leaders on org design, workforce planning, and leadership needs as the company scales.
• Clarify hiring standards, promotion expectations, and talent bar across teams.
• Design and evolve our performance management philosophy.
• Coach managers to set clear expectations and give direct feedback and have hard conversations with confidence.
• Own operational foundation that allows the company to grow confidently: benefits, compliance, investigations, employee relations, policies, and core people processes.
• Build lightweight systems that improve business performance without slowing the company down.

People Lead

DevOps Engineer

• Lead and develop a DevOps team: Hire, mentor, and grow engineers; set clear expectations and create an environment of ownership, high standards, and continuous improvement.
• Drive platform reliability: Own the health of CI/CD, deployment, and runtime infrastructure; improve availability, performance, and incident response through measurable SLOs and operational rigor.
• Build self-service and automation: Create developer-facing tooling to reduce toil (golden paths, paved roads, templates, and automation for common workflows).
• Evolve CI/CD and release engineering: Improve build and deploy pipelines, change management, release safety (progressive delivery, rollbacks), and supply-chain security.
• Observability and monitoring: Implement and mature logging, metrics, and alerting; build dashboards and guardrails that help teams understand and improve system behavior.
• Infrastructure as code: Standardize and scale infrastructure management using modern IaC patterns and review/approval workflows.
• Security and compliance partnership: Work closely with Security and compliance stakeholders to deliver secure-by-default systems and audit-ready practices.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with application teams to improve deployability and operability, and translate business priorities into an executable roadmap.

Engineering Manager, DevOps

Product Operations

• Deliver mission impact with our Special Activities and Information Operations products. Understand customer mission objectives, determine how to deliver timely mission-relevant insights with our tools, and execute accordingly.
• Curate insights from the data we generate, drawing on your geopolitical analysis skills while leveraging AI/ML tools to operate at scale and communicating in a mission-relevant format. Ensure a high degree of rigor in our products.
• Test innovative ways to achieve customer mission objectives and to Improve our operational processes for running our Special Activities and Information Operations products, including our tradecraft, vendor management, and integration with technology.
• Lead high-impact customer interactions, including mission demonstrations for prospective customers and mission support for current customers.
• Direct interaction with customers is important for all our team members, and you should expect some amount of travel to customer locations (~30%).

Product Operations Lead

• Grow and mentor a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on security, reliability, ownership, and delivering high-impact platform capabilities.
• Define the roadmap and technical vision for authentication, authorization, and access management capabilities, ensuring Vannevar’s identity platform scales securely and reliably with the business.
• Lead the development of centralized identity and access services—including IdP integrations, authorization infrastructure, and SSO capabilities—that reduce friction for product teams and enable secure-by-default development.
• Partner with Product, Mission, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to deliver foundational identity and access capabilities that balance security, usability, and operational excellence.
• Drive adoption of access control standards, security best practices, and platform capabilities across engineering teams to create a consistent and trustworthy access experience throughout Vannevar.

Engineering Manager – Decision Advantage

Senior Backend Engineer, Collection

People Lead

Engineering Manager, DevOps

Product Operations Lead

Engineering Manager, Security Platform