Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Vanta's Reporting & Issue Management team as a Senior Software Engineer and lead the development of innovative solutions for enterprise customers. You will own customer experiences, partner with product and design teams, and guide complex projects to successful outcomes. This role requires hands-on experience with Snowflake or similar data platforms and expertise in managing infrastructure as code. Vanta offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities for professional growth within a rapidly scaling company. The team focuses on building a structured, collaborative issue management system and powerful data infrastructure to provide real-time visibility into security and compliance. You will leverage modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js) to design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure.

Requirements

• You have hands-on experience working with Snowflake (or similar data platforms) and understand best practices for managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
• You’re comfortable designing scalable data models, optimizing query performance, and building and maintaining reliable data pipelines that power core product functionality

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business
• Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth
• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
• 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
• Own customer experiences end-to-end, from crafting intuitive Issue Management workflows to designing and maintaining our Snowflake-based data pipelines
• Partner with product and design to develop and launch greenfield products
• Guide complex projects to successful outcomes, balancing both immediate delivery and long-term architectural goals

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
• 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!