Software Engineering Manager - Remote

Overview

Vannevar Labs supports people on the front lines by building tools that deter and de-escalate conflict with America's adversaries. We build software and hardware for this mission that enable our customers to maintain maritime vigilance, disrupt misinformation, and collect non-traditional intelligence. In strategic competition, the intelligence and actions that shape conflict occur well before war itself. We build tools to win this fight now.

In Short

• Looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead our social collection platform engineering team.
• Specializing in data collection and processing to support OSINT workflows in the US DoD.
• Building and leading a mid-sized team focused on gathering publicly available data.
• Responsible for our core collection platform handling large-scale web traffic processing.
• Emphasis on operational security and managed attribution.
• Design and build scalable, reliable data-intensive applications.
• Identify opportunities for automation and enhancement of data collection platform.
• Work closely with engineers and product teams to ensure effective teamwork.
• Proven experience in engineering leadership roles required.
• Strong technical expertise in building ETL pipelines and designing APIs.

Requirements

• Proven experience in engineering leadership roles, either as a tech lead or engineering manager.
• Strong technical expertise in building ETL pipelines and designing APIs.
• Ability to build and scale creative solutions to challenging data access and collection problems.
• Understanding of managed attribution and operational security best practices.
• High ethical standards for handling sensitive data.
• Willingness to travel up to offsite and team syncs ~4 weeks per year.
• Excellent communication skills, teamwork abilities, and project ownership.
• U.S. Citizenship required to access U.S.-only data systems.
• Experience in data scraping or a strong desire to learn.
• Proficiency coding with Python, or similar.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 100% remote first culture with WeWork access.
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• Lifestyle stipends for mental health, wellness, and fitness.
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty.
• Fully paid parental leave.
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.