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Vanta is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Platform organization, which powers product development across the company by building shared foundations that all engineering teams depend on. You'll work on one of two closely-aligned teams: Application Primitives (building customer-facing platform components like comments, notifications, event logs, and audit trails) or Libraries & Foundations (owning internal engineering libraries, TypeScript abstractions, and golden-path patterns including event-driven architecture and test frameworks). Team placement will be determined based on your background and interests.
In this role, you will design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries that multiple engineering teams rely on. You'll partner deeply with product engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into clean, well-documented APIs and services. You'll drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries, with a focus on developer experience and platform scalability. You'll define and uphold engineering standards for shared components, ensuring consistency, performance, and security. You'll participate actively in code review, design discussions, and technical planning, raising the engineering quality bar for your team and beyond. You'll write and maintain thorough documentation for the systems and libraries you build, enabling engineers across the organization to use and contribute to them. You'll also contribute to building Vanta's engineering culture as the company scales.
Successful candidates will have 5+ years of backend or fullstack software engineering experience, with a focus on platform, shared infrastructure, or developer-facing systems. You should have experience building shared APIs, services, or platform components used by multiple engineering teams—a platform mindset is critical. Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or message queue systems (Kafka, SQS, pub/sub) is expected. Excellent communication skills are essential; you'll work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design stakeholders and clearly articulate technical trade-offs. You should have a track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code with sound judgment on architectural decisions. Vanta values engineers who are open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work, demonstrating curiosity, willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly.
