Responsibilities
- Lead the migration of the resource data model from MongoDB to a schema-aware PostgreSQL platform while maintaining backward compatibility and customer integrations.
- Design and evolve high-throughput ingestion and processing pipelines for terabyte-scale distributed data streams.
- Build correctness-focused systems using idempotency, conditional writes, reconciliation, backpressure, and eventual-consistency patterns.
- Productionize the Query API with schema versioning, joins, exports, per-tenant isolation, and predictable latency.
- Set architectural direction for Kafka, event queuing, Redis caching, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB storage across the Foundations platform.
- Diagnose production failures involving hot partitions, unbounded fan-out, and online rewrites of continuously written tables.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives and multi-quarter roadmaps while mentoring senior engineers through design reviews and hands-on contributions.
- Champion reliability, observability, operational hygiene, and responsible use of AI tools.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading platform migrations between major architecture versions while maintaining backward compatibility and availability.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, streaming, queuing infrastructure, and enterprise-scale data pipeline engineering.
- Strong knowledge of Kafka concepts including partitioning, consumer groups, redelivery, and idempotency, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience modeling and operating relational and document databases at scale, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB query planning, connection pooling, and online schema changes.
- Experience collaborating with engineering leadership to define and deliver multi-quarter technical roadmaps.
- Solid AWS fundamentals and professional experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
- Ability to communicate complex systems tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence cross-functional partners.
- Curiosity and sound judgment in applying AI to improve engineering efficiency and impact.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity are offered.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits are fully covered, including dependent coverage.
- Pension contribution is provided.
- The role includes 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Health and wellness, remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipends are provided.
- Flexible work hours and location are available, with remote work supported.
- Employees receive 21 vacation days, 80 hours of sick leave, and 11 company-paid holidays.
- The company offers virtual team-building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events.
- Vanta has offices in San Francisco, New York City, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.
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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.