2 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable shared customer-facing platform components or internal engineering abstractions and libraries
- Partner with product engineering teams to understand their needs and create clean, documented APIs and services
- Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries, with emphasis on developer experience and platform scalability
- Define and uphold standards for consistency, performance, and security across shared systems
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning
- Write and maintain documentation that enables engineers across the organization to use and contribute to shared systems and libraries
- Contribute to Vanta’s engineering culture as the company scales
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend or full-stack software engineering experience focused 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 such as Kafka, SQS, or pub/sub
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to engineering, product, and design stakeholders
- Track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable code and making sound architectural decisions
- Curiosity and sound judgment when using AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
Benefits
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependent coverage
- Pension contribution
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents
- Health and 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
- Remote work arrangement; offices are available in San Francisco, New York City, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney
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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.