Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Collection Platform)

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