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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Product Platform org - the group that powers product development across Vanta by building the shared foundations that every engineering team builds on top of.
Application Primitives is responsible for the shared, customer-facing platform components that product teams implement across the product: examples include comments, notifications platform, event log infrastructure, and agentic audit trails. This team sits at the intersection of platform and product - not pure infrastructure, not pure product - building the reusable building blocks that let other teams ship faster and more consistently.
Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!
What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform at Vanta:
- Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries that multiple engineering teams depend on for shared customer-facing components
- 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
- 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 - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.
- 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
At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.
About Vanta
We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.
Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.
Referral Instructions
If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.
Compensation Range: $195K - $229K
