6 months ago
Base Salary
$195k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and engineers.
- Design identity primitives for agent proxy behavior, permission enforcement, and auditable attribution.
- Build scalable backend platform services and solve distributed-systems challenges involving performance and security.
- Collaborate with Security on customer-data protection and enterprise security practices.
- Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and guide technical trade-offs.
- Lead complex technical migrations while maintaining system stability.
- Drive initiatives that improve operational posture and engineering execution quality.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to Vanta’s engineering culture.
Requirements
- Industry experience in backend software development.
- Strong knowledge of authentication protocols including OIDC and SAML, identity federation and SSO, or authorization frameworks such as RBAC and 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 involving performance and security.
- Experience with complex technical migrations that maintain system stability.
- Security-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practices.
- Experience leading technical projects spanning multiple months.
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with engineers.
- Willingness to use AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with employee-only premiums fully covered for most medical plans.
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Health and wellness stipend.
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipends.
- Commuter benefits for employees reporting to the San Francisco and New York City offices.
- Family planning benefits.
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
- Flexible PTO, 80 hours of sick time, and 11 company-paid holidays.
- Remote role with offices in San Francisco, New York City, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.
- Virtual team-building activities, lunch-and-learns, and company-wide events.
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About Vanta
Vanta builds a SaaS platform that automates security and compliance for companies, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR, plus risk, vendor, and audit management. It sells subscriptions to startups through enterprises, integrating with cloud and workplace tools to monitor controls and publish a public Trust Center. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 15,000+ customers in 58 countries and has offices in Dublin, London, New York, and Sydney.