Backend Engineer - Platform Data

Vannevar • San Francisco, CA

4h • $150,000 - $215,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Data Platform team is responsible for the pipelines, search, and identity systems that are foundational to Vannevar’s flagship platform and agentic workflows. The systems we build and operate define and enforce standards for data processing, storage, access, and retrieval across a growing suite of 10+ products.
You will be part of a team that builds and manages this business-critical infrastructure. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to serve as a technical leader—shaping patterns for enterprise-grade performance, scalability, reliability, quality, and security across the broader organization.
You’ll partner closely with product engineering teams to standardize and centralize shared infrastructure, reducing duplication and improving developer velocity. You’ll also collaborate with our Information Security team to ensure our systems meet the stringent security and compliance requirements of DoD environments. Finally, you’ll have an opportunity to craft the long-term strategy for the platform, guiding architectural decisions and investments that enable the company to scale safely and sustainably.

Requirements

• You have 7+ years of hands-on experience building core product infrastructure and distributed systems that support and empower product engineering teams.
• You have strong system design skills and can make thoughtful tradeoffs around performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• You have experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams and systems, and driving adoption through influence.
• You have contributed to systems operating at meaningful technical and organizational scale.
• You have experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and containerized environments like Docker and Kubernetes.
• You have experience working on secure systems that handle sensitive data and operate under strong security requirements.
• You have an exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad audience, including engineers, cross-functional partners (e.g., product and design), and end users.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of core platform infrastructure and shared services.
• Lead mission-critical projects to build and scale foundational platform capabilities.
• Work closely with engineers across the organization to adopt shared infrastructure and evolve existing and new products.
• Partner with security and Mission stakeholders to help define and enforce standards for access, data protection, and system integrity.
• Influence architecture, technology selection, and engineering standards across the company.
• Grow your engineering skills by solving complex, high-impact technical problems in platform and infrastructure systems.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed