DevOps Engineer
Salary: $150,000 - $190,000 + equity + 401K match Location Type: 100% Remote (US-based) Employment Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Vannevar Labs is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to own build and deployment automation. This role offers a significant impact on the company's future, emphasizing simple, maintainable, and scalable systems. The ideal candidate will be adept at making trade-offs to ensure systems operate effectively in both commercial and high-side environments, with strong communication skills to convey these decisions to the team.
About Vannevar Labs
Our mission is to be the technology backbone for strategic competition against peer adversaries. We support critical missions in intelligence, information operations, special activities, and perception management. Since 2019, we have grown to support a wide range of missions across all US service branches, multiple combatant commands, partner nations, and interagency stakeholders, deploying both hardware and software products.
We have experienced significant growth, from $3M in run-rate revenue in 2021 to $80M today, achieving profitability since 2022. We have raised $91M in venture capital funding through Series B and are valued at $1.5B as of 2025.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and be responsible for overall platform health, scaling, and planning.
- Develop self-service tools and automate processes to improve data engineering efficiency.
- Build logging and monitoring tools to visualize platform state and enhance SRE practices.
- Play a critical part in implementing a secure, robust, and high-availability DevOps pipeline.
- Collaborate with the team to continue building out a multi-account AWS environment.
- Automate build and deployment processes.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps or software engineering.
- Experience crafting CI/CD processes and automation.
- Deep knowledge of AWS cloud technology.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or similar.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code technologies like Terraform and Pulumi.
- Proficiency with containerization technologies such as Docker.
- Excellent skills in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
- Experience working in an agile scrum environment and the ability to work independently.
- Ability to quickly learn new and existing technologies.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities.
- U.S. Citizenship status is required due to the need to access U.S. only data systems and export-controlled data.
Additional Qualifications (Nice to have)
- Experience working with Elasticsearch/Opensearch.
- Experience building CI/CD systems in Github Actions.
- Passion for DevSecOps.
- Experience in data processing with the Department of Defense and/or the IC.
- Experience hardening and delivering software applications.
- Experience with modern web services architectures.
- Experience with relational database systems, including SQL and relational design.
- Experience with vector database systems.
- Knowledge of advanced networking concepts (overlays, VPNs, zero trust networks).
- Experience working in AWS GovCloud.
- Strong collaboration and negotiation skills, with the ability to work on multi-functional projects with internal partner engineering teams.
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary & Equity: $150,000 - $190,000 base salary, plus equity and 401K match.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Remote-First Culture: Work from anywhere in the US, with access to WeWork for all full-time employees.
- Flexible PTO: Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) including comp time.
Skills
Vannevar Labs
Advanced data collection for national security
About Vannevar Labs
Vannevar Labs enhances national security by providing advanced data collection and analysis tools primarily for government agencies and defense contractors. Their main product, Decrypt, simplifies the process of gathering public data from hard-to-reach sources while ensuring secure and anonymous data collection. This platform decentralizes data collection, pulling information from various global sources without requiring user interaction, using layered obfuscation methods to protect data integrity and user identities. Decrypt's open architecture allows for quick integration with other applications, making it adaptable to various needs. Vannevar Labs operates on a subscription-based model, charging clients for access to Decrypt, which ensures a steady revenue stream. The company's goal is to leverage technology to improve national security and maintain its reputation as a trusted provider in the defense sector.