
Backend Engineer – Platform Data
Vannevar Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $215,000 per year
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