Remote Senior Software Engineer - Security Platform

Vannevar Labs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote friendly

Unlimited PTO

401(k) match

Military leave benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Vannevar Labs is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack for its Security Platform. This remote role focuses on building the next generation of authentication, authorization, and identity infrastructure that powers mission-critical software across national security domains.

You will own both frontend and backend work across the stack, partner with product, design, security, and infrastructure teams, and help shape scalable platform capabilities and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with scalable backend systems.
• Strong backend expertise in Python/Java, PostgreSQL, distributed systems, and API design.
• Frontend work allowed (React/TypeScript/Node.js) for end-to-end features.
• Experience with identity/auth concepts and platforms (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT, RBAC/ABAC, SSO).
• Familiar with Keycloak, OpenFGA or similar systems.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Nice to have active security clearance or willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale centralized authentication and authorization platform with tenant isolation across environments.
• Own internal self-service platform for user, group, and permission management.
• Create tooling and visualizations to help users understand access permissions.
• Own platform management interfaces including the feature flag system.
• Partner with product engineering to share authorization and resource-sharing capabilities.
• Shape long-term roadmap for the Security Platform team to improve developer experience.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full-stack development

React/TypeScript/Node.js

API design

PostgreSQL

Security platform knowledge

Identity/auth concepts

Open source / distributed systems

Tools

Keycloak

OpenFGA

Job description

Vannevar Labs is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack for its Security Platform. This remote role focuses on building the next generation of authentication, authorization, and identity infrastructure that powers mission-critical software across national security domains.

You will own both frontend and backend work across the stack, partner with product, design, security, and infrastructure teams, and help shape scalable platform capabilities and developer experience.