Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Vanta, a company dedicated to securing the internet and protecting consumer data, as a Senior Software Engineer. You will lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products and scalable infrastructure. This role involves setting technical direction, driving complex projects, and contributing to a rapidly-growing company. You will design and build CI/CD systems, modernize testing tools, solve scalability problems, and support design reviews. Vanta offers a kind and talented team, and prior security experience is not mandatory. The position requires at least 5 years of industry experience and experience with complex infrastructure challenges.

Requirements

• Have at least 5 years of industry experience
• Have experience with complex infrastructure challenges related to scale, reliability, and performance
• Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects
• Have previous experience working on greenfield projects

Responsibilities

• Design and build CI and build systems to ensure Vanta engineers are building robust product quickly
• Modernize our testing tooling and tighten iteration loops in the developer experience
• Solve upcoming scalability problems related to our build system, developer workflows / experience, and key infrastructure and services
• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
• Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
• Set direction for critical infrastructure, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth
• Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it
• Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow

Preferred Qualifications

• Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
• Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• Pension contribution
• 15 weeks fully paid parental leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace stipend
• Flexible work hours and location
• 21 days of PTO and 80 hours of sick leave
• 9 to 11 company paid holidays (dependent on your territory of residence)
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!