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Salary: USD 150,000 - 215,000 / annual
Vannevar Labs is a defense technology company building agentic AI systems to support national security and defense decision-making. The company has grown from $3M to $80M ARR in three years and achieved unicorn status while maintaining early profitability.
The Security Platform team is responsible for building the authentication, authorization, and identity infrastructure that underpins Vannevar's mission-critical software. This role focuses on backend services, authorization engines, and data models that enable secure access control across the organization.
In this position, you will:
- Drive implementation, adoption, and evolution of core platform permission infrastructure and shared services
- Lead mission-critical projects to build and scale foundational platform authentication capabilities
- Partner with engineers across the organization to develop standardized security platform solutions addressing cross-product challenges
- Collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders to define and enforce standards for access control, data protection, and system integrity
- Influence architecture, technology selection, and engineering standards across the company
- Solve complex, high-impact problems in security platform and infrastructure systems
You will work closely with product engineers, compliance and application security teams, forward-deployed engineers, and mission users to build identity and access management capabilities that are intuitive, scalable, and deeply integrated into the product experience.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of backend development experience, including hands-on experience building identity and access management systems that other product teams rely on
- Strong system design skills with ability to make thoughtful tradeoffs among performance, reliability, scalability, and cost
- Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives spanning multiple systems and driving adoption through influence
- Security-first mindset and comfort operating with high discipline in sensitive environments
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a broad audience including engineers, cross-functional partners, and end users
- U.S. Person status required (role requires access to U.S.-only data systems)
