Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Vanta, a company dedicated to securing the internet and protecting consumer data, as a Senior AI Platform Engineer. You will play a key role in shaping Vanta's AI offerings, improving systems, and setting technical strategy for the end-to-end ML/AI architecture. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to implement, scale, and maintain data pipelines accelerating AI innovations. Build robust infrastructure foundations and high-leverage developer tools to empower engineers in creating and enhancing high-quality AI products. This role requires significant experience in software engineering, platform product design and scaling, and data pipeline development. Vanta offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of industry experience as a software engineer
• Experience designing, implementing, and scaling platform products for internal or external developers, including solving reliability, performance, and monitoring problems
• Experience building data pipelines from the ground up, scaling them multiple times, and the ability to consider the right tradeoffs in design, architecture, developer experience, and performance
• Previous experience or a strong interest in ML/AI systems, evaluating quality, and using state-of-the-art AI technology to solve user problems
• Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action
• Be action-driven, willing to roll up your sleeves and engage directly with users. Prioritize building a platform that meets users where they are, while bringing strong opinions

Responsibilities

• Work closely with other engineers at Vanta to understand their pain points in AI development and identify opportunities for improvements
• Design, build, and improve AI infrastructure and tooling, such as offline and online evaluation, data pipelines for model training, and vector search capabilities
• Design, build, and improve unified AI services such as document parsing, search, LLM gateways
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Set an example for effective, collaborative engineering culture, and help mentor junior team members

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
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours and location
• Open PTO policy
• 9 paid holidays in the US