Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

The role

You will design and build scalable systems and shared libraries that multiple engineering teams depend on. You will partner with product engineering teams to translate needs into APIs and services.

What you will do

• Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries
• Partner with product engineering teams to translate needs into APIs and services
• Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries
• Define and uphold engineering standards for shared components
• Participate in code review, design discussions, and technical planning
• Write and maintain thorough documentation for systems and libraries
• Contribute to building Vanta's engineering culture

Required qualifications

• Industry experience in backend or fullstack software engineering, with a focus on platform, shared infrastructure, or developer-facing systems
• Experience building shared APIs, services, or platform components used by multiple engineering teams
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or message queue systems (Kafka, SQS, pub/sub)
• Excellent communication skills
• Track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code
• Open to using AI to amplify skills and strengthen work

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• Pension contribution
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Flexible work hours and location
• 21 days of Vacation Time
• 80 hours of Sick Leave
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events

About the company

Vanta helps businesses earn and prove trust by enabling continuous security monitoring and verification. The company provides a Trust Management Platform to help companies improve and prove their security.