Honest question: does the NSA have good engineers? Like, FAANG good? It seems like a funny "hype line" for a startup, because I think of government engineers as ok, but not like, rockstars.
Most of the top engineers would probably be contractors. The government pay scale pretty much forces you to become a manager if you want to move past GS-12. Including locality pay, GS-12 salary tops at a little over 100k a year[1].
I just looked at their website, and they don't mention anything about NSA, Amazon, or Google on the landing page, so I think it's just techcrunch adding it in as clickbait, even though the founders aren't going out of their way to advertise it.
The majority of the best engineers don't even work for a FAANG. FAANGs don't offer remote for the most part. How many of the best decided they wanted more. The world is a big place.
I think we're pretty good. Feel free to review the code and contribute as we release our open source packages over time. We all get better with time and collaboration.
But maybe I'm wrong?