Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient.
We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Onebrief operates as an all-remote company, though many of our employees work alongside our customers at military commands around the world.
Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s team spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies. We’ve raised $320m+ from top-tier investors, including Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures, Insight Partners, and Human Capital, and today, Onebrief is valued at $2.15B. With this continued growth, Onebrief is able to make an impact where it matters most.
Role OverviewWe are building a brand new Developer Experience (DevEx) Team as a core strategic investment in our engineering organization's growth and efficiency. As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader with a massive multiplier effect, setting the vision for how hundreds of engineers interact with our codebase. You will be the primary architect of the Golden Path, ensuring that from the moment a developer opens their IDE to the moment their code hits production, the process is seamless, fast, and intuitive. You will own the local development environment, lead our AI consolidation strategy, and define the standards for how we build software at scale.
Key ResponsibilitiesThe Golden Path and Local Development
Standardize the IDE: Create and maintain the Golden Path for developers, including recommended plugins, configurations, and internal tooling to reduce cognitive load.
Local Experience: Own the bootstrapping process for new services. Optimize local Docker workflows and resource allocation to ensure dev environments are fast and reliable.
Dev Tooling: Lead the architectural transition of our build systems (migrating to Turborepo) to drastically reduce build and test latencies across the organization.
AI and Innovation
AI Tooling Consolidation: Audit and consolidate the existing landscape of AI tools. You will lead the selection and implementation of a unified AI suite to ensure consistent adoption and cost efficiency.
Modernization: Lead the strategic planning for language specific upgrades, specifically TypeScript versioning and migration paths.
Governance and Security
Library Management: Partner with AppSec to manage and approve library versions, ensuring our dependencies are secure without slowing down feature delivery.
Standardization: Establish engineering standards and governance models that allow for autonomy while maintaining system wide consistency.
CI/CD and Workflow Orchestration
Workflow Design: Design the YAML workflows, pipelines, and automated checks that developers interact with daily.
Automated Deployments: Architect and implement self service automation for deployments, reducing manual intervention and ensuring a repeatable, push button experience for all engineering teams.
Testing Strategy: Integrate automated testing and quality gates into the pipeline to ensure shift left testing is a reality.
IDP Experience: You have experience building or maintaining IDPs that offer value add to Engineering teams.
Experience: 8+ years in Software Engineering or Developer Productivity roles, with a proven track record of leading cross functional technical initiatives at a Staff level.
Tooling Mastery: Deep experience with monorepos, Docker, and modern CI/CD platforms.
Technical Influence: Ability to drive consensus across multiple product teams and mentor senior engineers on best practices.
Empathy Driven: You view other developers as your customers and are passionate about removing friction from their workday.
Automation Mindset: You prioritize automating repetitive tasks to improve efficiency across the entire organization.
As a Staff Engineer in this newly formed team, you aren't just shipping features; you are shipping the factory. By saving 100 developers just 30 minutes a day through better tooling and pipelines, you reclaim 250 hours of engineering capacity every single week. You are the engineer who builds the tools that every other engineer loves to use.
Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies
Please note that Onebrief does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement Onebrief explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Onebrief.
Top Skills
What We Do
Before Onebrief, military planning and collaboration was slow, inefficient, and resource-intensive. Building slides with no version control as partners collaborated would have staffs spend weeks or months on a single product or document.
With Onebrief, these workflows are now simple and collaboration between large commands is efficient. Staff optimization is the key to building a more resilient, more effective military. Today Onebrief users report at least 2x time savings - and growing.
Onebrief is a first of its kind software for the military. While many others have tried to build a solution for this problem, Onebrief’s “card” structure for reusing data and enabling real time updates is what makes this possible. Core features and attributes that make this platform powerful include:
- Global Collaboration
- Real-Time Updates
- AI Automation
- Interoperability + Integrations
- Deployable across Secret and Top Secret Networks
Mission Driven
Onebrief is composed of professionals from backgrounds of all kinds - spanning veterans across forces and organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software giants.
Onebrief is more than just a software platform; it's a mission-driven company dedicated to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of military planning. By joining the team, you'll contribute to solutions that directly support national security and the work of service members.
Your work directly addresses critical challenges that military planners and operators face daily. Every line of code and every design decision contributes to real-world outcomes.
The software was designed and built by a team of experienced planners - lending a nuanced perspective on the challenges our partners face. Our team embeds alongside users - from
the Pentagon to the Indo-Pacific - to build a platform that meets their unique needs.
Rapid, Strategic Growth
Our users love the platform and growth is scaling, most recently reporting operational usage growth at a 19,600% annualized rate. Stronger utilization is underway and we’re at an exciting period of advancement.
As a rapidly growing organization, you'll directly influence its direction and long-term success. Over the past year we’ve seen exciting growth metrics:
First, our headcount has grown 150% YoY to keep pace with our product advancement and customer growth.
Our funding has skyrocketed, most recently raising our Series C, led by top-tier venture investors who have deep expertise in defense tech.
Why Work With Us
Impactful Transformation
At Onebrief, we believe optimizing the military staff is the most impactful thing - on a per-dollar basis - in defense tech right now. This has the potential to save the department of defense billions of dollars and save users countless hours. It’s a longstanding problem that we’re uniquely positioned to solve.
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Remote Workspace
Employees work remotely.
We’re a fully remote organization - and believe it makes us a more powerful team. We bring together incredible professionals without the constraints of time zones or personal circumstances.
