Application Security Engineer, Vannevar Labs

$160-210k

Plus equity

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Django

Node.js

Postgres

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

Defense for the digital domain

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Defense for the digital domain

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityDeep TechAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaS

Be an early applicant

$160-210k

Plus equity

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Django

Node.js

Postgres

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityDeep TechAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

We build software for our nation's most pressing national security problems.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5 + years in Application / Product Security
Ability to read & write production-quality code
Hands-on experience securing web applications and automating AppSec workflows
Familiarity with incident response fundamentals—log triage, forensics, retros—and a passion for eliminating root causes
Clear, concise communicator who can translate risk for engineers, leadership, and customers
Ideally experienced with AWS, Python, containers, TypeScript, Node.js, Django, PostgreSQL, and Rancher
Experience securing LLM workflows is a big plus

What the job involves

As the Founding Application Security Engineer, you will own and build the security backbone of our SaaS platform, ensuring we can ship features quickly — and safely — to our customers
You will partner with software, DevOps, and platform teams, while coordinating with audit partners, to embed threat modeling, automated SAST/SCA/DAST, and rapid vulnerability response into every stage of our SDLC
Your leadership will be pivotal in protecting customer data, meeting compliance milestones, and scaling our security posture as the company grows
Map our product attack surface, rank risks, and publish a 12-month security roadmap
Embed with development teams to run threat models, review critical PRs, and coach secure-by-default habits
Help implement and deploy SAST, SCA, secrets-scan, DAST, and container/IaC checks in CI/CD; drive MTTR on P1 vulns to < 7 days
Coordinate with DevOps for application security issues that cross between application and infrastructure layers
Support incident-response for product issues and feed lessons back into code, docs, and process
Write customer-facing Product Security white-papers and supply compliance evidence

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 Labs’ 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 Series B funding round to invest in new product development. Vannevar Labs is also aiming to win its first multi-year program from Decrypt. Should it be successful, the level of guaranteed sales and revenue would be a turning point in the company’s long-term trajectory.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

119% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.7)

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)

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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