# Engineering Manager, Security Platform
**Company:** [Vannevar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vannevar)
**Location:** Remote
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Identity And Access Management, Authentication, Authorization, SSO, Idp Integrations, Access Control, Secure System Design, Distributed Systems, Engineering Leadership, Platform Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-06-05
> Lead the Security Platform team building centralized identity, authentication, and access management infrastructure. Drive strategy, execution, and adoption of secure-by-default access capabilities across engineering teams.
## Job Description
## What you’ll do

**Team leadership:** Grow and mentor a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a strong engineering culture focused on security, reliability, ownership, and delivering high-impact platform capabilities.

**Strategy and technical direction:** Define the roadmap and technical vision for authentication, authorization, and access management capabilities, ensuring Vannevar’s identity platform scales securely and reliably with the business.

**Platform and developer enablement:** Lead the development of centralized identity and access services—including IdP integrations, authorization infrastructure, and SSO capabilities—that reduce friction for product teams and enable secure-by-default development.

**Cross-functional execution:** Partner with Product, Mission, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to deliver foundational identity and access capabilities that balance security, usability, and operational excellence.

**Organizational impact:** Drive adoption of access control standards, security best practices, and platform capabilities across engineering teams to create a consistent and trustworthy access experience throughout Vannevar.

## What we’re looking for

**Engineering leadership:** 3+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, with a track record of delivering complex technical initiatives and growing engineers.

**Identity and access expertise:** Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, access control, and secure system design, with experience building or operating identity, security, or platform infrastructure.

**Distributed systems experience:** 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating scalable, reliable distributed systems that serve as critical infrastructure for engineering organizations.

**Product and customer mindset:** Demonstrated ability to partner closely with product, engineering, and operational stakeholders to deliver solutions that balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical excellence.

**Judgment and execution:** Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and make sound tradeoffs between security, reliability, developer experience, and delivery velocity.

**Communication and influence:** Excellent communication skills and a track record of driving alignment across teams, influencing technical direction, and building strong cross-functional partnerships.

## What we value

- Active security clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one.
- Prior experience building software for defense, national security or intelligence use cases.

## What we offer

- 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
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