Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vanta is a trust management platform that helps businesses continuously monitor, improve, and prove their security. The Senior Software Engineer will join the Product Platform organization to build scalable shared systems, customer-facing platform components, internal engineering libraries, and foundational abstractions used by teams across the company. The role also involves partnering with product engineering teams, influencing architecture, maintaining engineering standards, and improving developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries that multiple engineering teams depend on - whether that's shared customer-facing components (Applications Primitives) or internal abstractions (Libraries & Foundations)
- Partner deeply with product engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into clean, well-documented APIs and services
- Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries, with a focus on developer experience and platform scalability
- Define and uphold engineering standards for shared components, ensuring consistency, performance, and security across the systems you own
- Participate actively in code review, design discussions, and technical planning - raising the engineering quality bar for your team and beyond
- Write and maintain thorough documentation for the systems and libraries you build, enabling engineers across the org to use and contribute to them
- Contribute to building Vanta's engineering culture as we scale
Skills
- 5+ years of backend or fullstack software engineering experience, with a focus on platform, shared infrastructure, or developer-facing systems
- Experience building shared APIs, services, or platform components used by multiple engineering teams - a platform mindset is critical
- Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or message queue systems (Kafka, SQS, pub/sub)
- Excellent communication skills - able to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design stakeholders, and to clearly articulate technical trade-offs
- Track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code with sound judgment on architectural decisions
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events
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