2 hours ago
Base Salary
$224k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.
- Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows, including checkpointing, retries, human-in-the-loop steps, and recovery from partial failures.
- Evolve the agent harness for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration.
- Develop evaluation and debugging tools that convert production failures into measurable improvements and regression coverage.
- Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery to support accurate and useful AI behavior.
- Own platform capabilities through rollout and operation, including reliability, observability, performance, and secure customer-data handling.
- Partner with product teams to prototype solutions, identify common needs, and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms.
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes.
- Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms and designing for idempotency, retries, and long-running state.
- Familiarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs.
- Practical evaluation experience, including defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring whether changes improve outcomes.
- Product judgment connecting platform decisions to developer needs and customer outcomes.
- Ownership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment.
- Ability to use AI in day-to-day work while applying sound judgment and maintaining a high quality bar.
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 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 company-wide events.
- Remote role with offices 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.