Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Security

Summary

Join Vanta's Infrastructure & Security team and build scalable infrastructure to support rapid growth. Lead projects across cloud infrastructure, including container orchestration, monitoring, and database maintenance. Implement and maintain core security infrastructure and controls. Solve complex scalability and performance challenges related to service reliability and data throughput. Partner with Security Engineering to implement best-in-class security and compliance practices. Drive infrastructure design reviews and provide technical guidance. Work with talented engineers to impact our customer base and contribute to Vanta's engineering culture.

Requirements

• You’ve played technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams
• You have experience with infrastructure, AWS services,, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments
• You care deeply about performance and reliability
• You’re thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when creating new infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable infrastructure to support rapid growth in data volume, service usage, and engineering velocity
• Lead projects across our cloud infrastructure, including container orchestration (e.g., AWS Fargate, ECS), monitoring and alerting systems, networking, and database maintenance
• Implement and maintain core security infrastructure and controls including, service-to-service authentication, secrets management, application security primitives (e.g., rate-limiting, encryption libraries, etc.), and infrastructure hardening
• Identify and solve complex scalability and performance challenges, particularly related to service reliability and data throughput
• Partner closely with Security Engineering to implement infrastructure that supports best-in-class security and compliance practices
• Drive infrastructure design reviews and provide technical guidance on architectural decisions and trade-offs
• 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

Benefits

• Industry-Competitive Salary and Equity
• 100% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits with Dependents Coverage
• 16 Weeks Fully Paid Parental Leave for All New Parents (Moms, Dads, Adoptive, Foster)
• Health & Wellness Stipend
• Remote Workspace Stipend
• 401(k) Matching Plan
• Flexible Work Hours and Location
• Open & Encouraged PTO Policy
• 12 Company Paid Holidays
• Free Memberships to Online Wellness Platforms (One Medical, Ginger, Headspace, and more!)
• Virtual Team Building Activities, Lunch and Learns, and other Company-Wide Events