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We have 125 deployments across every branch and combatant command spanning our core platform and five distinct products. An an example of how we work, when major combat operations started with Iran, we fielded a new product supporting 24/7 operations and 9,000+ users in three months.\nHow we build is our advantage: we deploy forward with the people who own the mission. Our engineers, product team, and CTO deploy forward to the point of friction, including visiting units in Ukraine. We focus on embedding directly with operational units supporting great power competition with China, combat operations with Iran, and counter-narcotics missions.\nAbout the Role\nAt Vannevar, we build mission software for the national security, defense, and intelligence communities. The Collection Platform team builds the systems that acquire mission-critical data from websites, APIs, feeds, and third-party platforms.\nIn this role, you’ll own web scrapers, third-party integrations, and data pipelines that produce complete, correct, and timely data despite unreliable upstream systems. You’ll partner with mission teams, product managers, and engineers to define requirements and make tradeoffs among data quality, reliability, scale, and cost.\nWhat you’ll do\nBuild and operate production web scrapers, third-party integrations, and data pipelines.\nDesign for schema changes, rate limits, authentication requirements, and partial failures.\nBuild reliable retry, backfill, deduplication, idempotency, and replay mechanisms.\nDefine and monitor data completeness, correctness, freshness, duplication, and provenance.\nDevelop APIs, databases, and shared services for collection workflows.\nPartner with mission teams, platform teams, and product managers to evaluate sources and support new data requirements.\nInfluence architecture, technology selection, and engineering standards for collection systems.\nWhat we’re looking for\nYou have 4+ years of backend engineering experience, including production web scraping, data ingestion, ETL, or third-party integrations.\nYou write production software in Python and are familiar with relational databases and API design.\nYou know how to maintain data quality across large, changing datasets.\nYou have designed systems that tolerate upstream failures and changing external interfaces.\nYou can make thoughtful tradeoffs among reliability, scalability, performance, maintainability, and cost.\nYou communicate technical decisions clearly and work well across engineering, product, and mission teams.\nU.S. Person status is required, as this role requires access to U.S.-only data systems and the ability to obtain a security clearance.\nNice to Have\nExperience with distributed task processing, workflow orchestration, or large-scale data pipelines.\nExperience monitoring data quality and investigating production regressions.\nWhat we offer\nWe’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance\nRemote friendly with WeWork access\nUnlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year\n401(k) match\nLifestyle & wellbeing stipends\nSalary top-up during military reserve duty\nFully paid parental leave\nChild and pet care reimbursement during travel\nVannevar is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.\nWe encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!\nIMPORTANT NOTICE\nWe 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. 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