Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Vanta's Monetization Platform team as a Senior Software Engineer and lead the development of an enterprise-grade revenue and entitlement platform. You will build systems supporting customer purchasing, access, and product management, tackling complex challenges in data modeling, transactional consistency, API design, and metering infrastructure. This role requires technical leadership in architecting solutions connecting the customer-facing platform with financial operations, ensuring seamless enterprise procurement and partner-driven distribution. You will establish reliable data flows, reduce manual operations, and create scalable infrastructure for new commercial models. The position involves collaboration with various teams and mentoring junior engineers. Leverage your experience to contribute to Vanta's growth and build systems impacting its trajectory while solving challenging distributed systems problems.

Requirements

• Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
• Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems
• Strong background integrating with external APIs and services
• Experience building platform services used by multiple teams
• Strong data modeling skills for systems requiring transactional consistency
• Knowledge of billing systems, payment processing, or subscription management
• Understanding of financial data security and integrity requirements
• Have led meaningful technical projects from concept to completion
• Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done
• Ability to collaborate effectively with partners in Finance and Sales
• Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
• Provide technical direction for key monetization initiatives
• Collaborate with GTM and Finance teams to ensure alignment between engineering systems and business needs
• Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
• Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization

Benefits

• Industry-competitive compensation
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours and location
• Open PTO policy
• 11 paid holidays in the US
• Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, and Sydney