Senior Software Engineer – Cyber

Vannevar Labs

Senior engineer leading development of new Cyber products for national security missions. Building a product from concept to operational deployment with a focus on user needs and problem-solving.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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)

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Currently holds or previously held a CI Polygraph (preferred); ability and willingness to obtain a CI Polygraph required

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

full-stack developmentbackend systemsAPIsdata modelingfrontend developmentuser-facing productscybersecurity productsdata pipelinessoftware deploymentlarge-scale data analysis

Soft Skills

problem-solvinguser collaborationiterationownershipadaptabilitycommunicationdecision-makingusability focusperformance optimizationworking in ambiguity

Certifications

CI Polygraph