Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

The role

This person will build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows. They will work on model integrations, retrieval, and evaluation tools to support AI behavior.

What you will do

• Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.
• Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows.
• Evolve the agent harness for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration.
• Develop evaluation and debugging tools.
• Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery.
• Own platform capabilities through rollout and operation.
• Partner with product teams to prototype solutions and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms.
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes.
• Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms and designing for idempotency, retries, and long-running state.
• Familiarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs.
• Practical evaluation experience: defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring whether changes improve outcomes.
• Product judgment: connecting platform decisions to developer needs and customer outcomes.
• Ownership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment.
• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify skills and strengthen outcomes.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 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 companies to improve and prove their security. The company provides a Trust Management Platform to make security continuous and transparent.