About the role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to head our Collection Platform organization, specializing in data collection and processing to support OSINT (open-source intelligence) workflows in the US DoD. You will be leading 3 engineering teams: News, Social, and Cyber in the Platform Engineering organization.
Vannevar Labs’ core products rely almost exclusively on your team's ability to maintain a scalable collection apparatus, quickly respond to new data requests, and creatively gain access to hard-to-collect sources of publicly available information. In addition, the teams are growing quickly and your ability to build a team around new initiatives is paramount.
What You’ll Do
- Team Building: Develop and lead a strong cross-functional team focused on data collection and exploitation to power all VL products.
- Data Product Development: Design and build scalable, reliable data-intensive applications for collecting and warehousing publicly available information.
- Technology Improvement: Identify opportunities for automation and enhancement of our core data collection platform from various online sources.
- Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, product engineering teams and mission success, leveraging your communication skills to ensure effective teamwork.
What we look for
- 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, ensuring adherence to data privacy rules and compliance standards.
- Willingness to travel up to 15%.
- 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.
What we offer
We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.
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