Vannevar Labs

Backend Engineer – Platform Data

Vannevar Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $215,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of core platform infrastructure and shared services.
  • Lead mission-critical projects to build and scale foundational platform capabilities.
  • Work closely with engineers across the organization to adopt shared infrastructure and evolve existing and new products.
  • Partner with security and Mission stakeholders to help define and enforce standards for access, data protection, and system integrity.
  • Influence architecture, technology selection, and engineering standards across the company.
  • Grow your engineering skills by solving complex, high-impact technical problems in platform and infrastructure systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience building core product infrastructure and distributed systems that support and empower product engineering teams.
  • Strong system design skills and can make thoughtful tradeoffs around performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams and systems, and driving adoption through influence.
  • Contributed to systems operating at meaningful technical and organizational scale.
  • Experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and containerized environments like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience working on secure systems that handle sensitive data and operate under strong security requirements.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad audience, including engineers, cross-functional partners (e.g., product and design), and end users.
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
system designdistributed systemscloud technologiesAWSAzureGCPDockerKubernetesdata protectionsystem integrity
Soft Skills
communicationinfluenceleadershipproblem-solvingcollaborationtradeoff analysistechnical initiative leadershipcross-functional partnershipadaptabilitycritical thinking