Base Salary
$195k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex projects from problem definition and technical design through implementation, rollout, and operation.
- Design and evolve backend systems, APIs, and data models used to run Tests and process results.
- Improve the reliability, correctness, performance, and observability of the Tests runtime.
- Investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and build durable solutions.
- Simplify existing systems and improve the abstractions and interfaces used by other engineers.
- Collaborate with engineers across Vanta on problems spanning systems and team boundaries.
- Provide feedback in design and code reviews and communicate technical tradeoffs.
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to the engineering culture.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating reliable, scalable backend systems in production.
- Independently delivered complex technical projects involving ambiguous problems or solutions.
- Strong systems thinking and fundamentals in backend system design, APIs, and data modeling.
- Strong debugging skills and the ability to reason about correctness, reliability, performance, and scalability across complex systems.
- Ability to make effective technical tradeoffs, take ownership of production systems, and improve mature systems incrementally.
- Clear communication of technical decisions, thoughtful design feedback, and effective cross-team collaboration.
- Experience with TypeScript, GraphQL, MongoDB, and observability tools such as Datadog is a plus.
- Curiosity and sound judgment when applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with employee-only premiums covered for most medical plans.
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Health and wellness stipend.
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
- Commuter benefits for team members 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.
- Virtual team-building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events.
- Remote work is available, with offices in San Francisco, New York City, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.
Tech Stack
About Vanta
Vanta is the #1 Agentic Trust Platform that helps businesses earn and prove trust. From startup to enterprise, Vanta is trusted by 15,000+ customers, including Atlassian, Duolingo, Icelandair, Ramp and Synthesia, to automate compliance, manage risk, and prove trust continuously—all from a single, AI-powered platform. - Automated Compliance: Automate evidence gathering with continuous monitoring to get you compliant and keep you secure. - Streamlined Audits: Collaborate seamlessly with auditors to help get you audit-ready, fast and hassle-free. - Risk Management: Centralize your IT risk to make informed decisions, whether you’re bringing your own program or building one from scratch. - Vendor Risk Management: Streamline vendor security reviews with AI-powered analysis and continuous monitoring of vendor attack surfaces. - Trust Center: Share your security and compliance posture with buyers with a public-facing Trust Center, and tie your security program to revenue. - Questionnaire Automation: Streamline security questionnaires by having Vanta AI take the first pass for you—so all you need to do is review, approve, and submit. - 375+ integrations: A market-leading ecosystem of over 375 integrations that powers 1,200+ automated, hourly tests, giving you continuous visibility into your compliance posture. - Vanta AI: Supercharge your team with AI-powered control mapping, evidence checks, questionnaire automation, and custom code snippets to remediate failing tests. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. Investors include Sequoia, Wellington, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, J.P. Morgan, Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Ventures. Vanta has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Inc.’s Best Workplaces, and Forbes’ Best Startup Employer lists.