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Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

Vanta· Software Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to join Vanta's Product Platform org, building shared foundations powering product development and internal libraries. Two aligned 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 - whether that's shared customer-facing components (Applications Primitives) or internal abstractions (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
  • 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 - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringAPIs and servicesDistributed systems / event-driven architectureCommunication & collaborationArchitectural judgment
Nice to have:AI literacy

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 and 80 hours of Sick Leave
  • 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.
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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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