Base Salary
$260k - $306k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the migration from a Mongo-centric resource data model to a schema-aware, Postgres-backed architecture while maintaining backward compatibility and customer integrations.
- Drive technical solutions across dependent engineering teams and define multi-quarter architectural roadmaps through delivery.
- Design reliable, high-throughput ingestion and streaming infrastructure for terabyte-scale data across distributed systems.
- Build the Query API into a production platform with schema versioning, joins, exports, tenant isolation, and predictable latency.
- Design for eventual consistency using idempotent session handling, conditional writes, reconciliation, and explicit backpressure.
- Set architectural direction for Kafka and event queuing, Redis caching, and Postgres and MongoDB persistent storage.
- Diagnose production issues such as hot partitions, unbounded fan-out, and online rewrites of continuously written tables.
- Mentor senior engineers through design reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on work on complex systems.
- Champion reliability, observability, and operational hygiene across Vanta’s data infrastructure.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading platform migration initiatives between major architecture versions while maintaining backward compatibility and availability.
- Strong command of Kafka or equivalent streaming and queuing infrastructure, including partitioning, consumer groups, redelivery, and idempotency.
- Deep industry experience in distributed systems and data-pipeline engineering at enterprise scale, including terabyte-scale ingestion and high-throughput event processing.
- Experience with relational and document data modeling at scale using Postgres and MongoDB, including query planning, connection pooling, and online schema changes.
- Experience collaborating with engineering leadership on multi-quarter technical roadmaps and driving them to delivery.
- Solid AWS fundamentals and comfort working with TypeScript and Node.
- Ability to explain complex systems tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences and align cross-functional partners.
- Curiosity and sound judgment in using 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.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Health and wellness stipend.
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
- Commuter benefits for employees reporting to the San Francisco and New York 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 company-wide events.
- Remote role with offices in San Francisco, New York, 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.