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Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

Vanta· Software Engineering
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Remote$195k - $229kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer role within Vanta's Product Platform organization, contributing to foundational shared components and internal libraries across product teams. Two potential teams: Applications Primitives (customer-facing platform components) and Libraries & Foundations (internal engineering libraries and golden-path patterns).

Responsibilities

  • Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries that multiple engineering teams depend on - either Applications Primitives or Libraries & Foundations
  • Partner deeply with product engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into clean, well-documented APIs and services
  • Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries, with a focus on developer experience and platform scalability
  • Define and uphold engineering standards for shared components, ensuring consistency, performance, and security across the systems you own
  • Participate actively in code review, design discussions, and technical planning - raising the engineering quality bar for your team and beyond
  • Write and maintain thorough documentation for the systems and libraries you build, enabling engineers across the org to use and contribute to them
  • Contribute to building Vanta's engineering culture as we scale

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 - a platform mindset is critical
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or message queue systems (Kafka, SQS, pub/sub)
  • Excellent communication skills - able to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design stakeholders, and to clearly articulate technical trade-offs
  • Track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code with sound judgment on architectural decisions
  • Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - curiosity, willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly

Skills

Required:Backend or Fullstack EngineeringShared APIs / Platform ComponentsDistributed Systems / Event-Driven ArchitectureCommunication & CollaborationArchitectural Judgment
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!
  • Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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