Senior Software Engineer, Vannevar
New Product, Cyber
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Defense for the digital domain
Open for applications
Defense for the digital domain
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build software for the nation's most pressing national security problems.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a senior engineer to lead the development of new Cyber products in support of national security missions
- This is a 0→1 builder role - taking a product from concept to operational deployment while working directly with end users and shaping both the product and the problem space
- You’ll own our flagship Cyber product, Cyber Recon - an external attack surface management platform built for cyber operators
- This is not a traditional forward-deployed role, but it requires the same level of mission ownership, user empathy, and execution velocity - applied to building a durable product
- 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
Our take
As intelligence analysts work to solve rapidly evolving and increasingly challenging national security problems, modern technology is vital in achieving optimal results as there is no room for failure. Vannevar's innovative foreign text platform delivers solutions to some of today’s most important national security problems.
The company’s workflow platform, Decrypt, uses machine learning and automation to understand, target and respond to foreign actors in ways not previously possible. The platform is a proven success, driving Vannevar’s growth and attracting a $40M OTA contract with the Department of Defense.
Yielding impressive traction so far, the company is using its latest funding round to accelerate strategic initiatives and expand the scope of its technology. This comes after a period of rapid growth and sustained profitability, all suggesting a fruitful future for the company long-term.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
119% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2023
$75m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91.5m
Company benefits
- Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Equity + 401(k) Match
- Open PTO + all Federal Holidays and Dec 23-31
- Paid Parental Leave
- 100% Remote - Work From Anywhere in the US
- Flexible Work Environment - You Manage Your Work Day
- Quarterly Off-Site Travel for Team-Building
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Nini Hamrick
(President & Co-founder)Former US Intelligence Officer working as a Political & Counterterrorism Programs Analyst. Previous Chief of Staff to the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and was a Counterterrorism Analyst for the United States Department of Defense.
Brett Granberg
(CEO)Current Advisor at Lilt. Former Investor at In-Q-Tel and previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
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