Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity
Remote$195k - $229kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Senior-level backend engineer leading and mentoring engineers on the Identity team, focusing on building scalable identity primitives, authentication/authorization, and agent-based identity governance within Vanta’s infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
- Collaborate with Security to ensure Vanta's platform implements best practices for customer data
- Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
- Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization
Qualifications
- Industry experience with backend software development
- Strong knowledge of authentication protocols (OIDC, SAML) and identity federation concepts (SSO), or authorization frameworks (RBAC, policy-based access control)
- Experience building platform services that scale across multiple teams
- Strong data modeling skills for systems with complex relationships
- Experience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and security
- Success with complex technical migrations that maintain system stability
- Security-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practices
- Have led technical projects spanning months
- Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with other engineers
- Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
Skills
Required:Backend software developmentAuthentication protocols (OIDC, SAML)Authorization frameworks (RBAC, policy-based access control)Platform servicesData modelingDistributed systemsTechnical migrationsSecurity practicesProject leadershipMentoringEngineering culture
Nice to have:AI for productivity
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!
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Vanta
Automate compliance, manage risk, and accelerate trust with AI
Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.
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