Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Product Platform org - the group that powers product development across Vanta by building the shared foundations that every engineering team builds on top of. This hire will join one of two closely-aligned teams within the org, each working on foundational challenges with company-wide impact.

• Application Primitives: Responsible for the shared, customer-facing platform components that product teams implement across the product, including:
  • Comments
  • Notifications platform
  • Event log infrastructure
  • Agentic audit trails
• Libraries & Foundations: A brand-new team that owns Vanta's internal engineering libraries and golden-path patterns, including:
  • TypeScript-first abstractions
  • Event-driven architecture libraries
  • Code quality tooling
  • Test frameworks

You'll be evaluated for both teams based on your background and interests, and the decision on team placement will reflect where your skills and passions are the strongest fit.

What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform at Vanta:

• Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries that multiple engineering teams depend on.
• Partner deeply with product engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into clean, well-documented APIs and services.
• Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries, focusing on developer experience and platform scalability.
• Define and uphold engineering standards for shared components, ensuring consistency, performance, and security across the systems you own.
• Participate actively in code review, design discussions, and technical planning, raising the engineering quality bar for your team and beyond.
• Write and maintain thorough documentation for the systems and libraries you build, enabling engineers across the org to use and contribute to them.
• Contribute to building Vanta's engineering culture as we scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or fullstack software engineering experience, with a focus on platform, shared infrastructure, or developer-facing systems.
• Experience building shared APIs, services, or platform components used by multiple engineering teams.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or message queue systems (Kafka, SQS, pub/sub).
• Excellent communication skills, able to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design stakeholders.
• Track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code with sound judgment on architectural decisions.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity.
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage.
• Pension contribution.
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents.
• Health & wellness stipend.
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
• Flexible work hours and location.
• 21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave.
• 11 company-paid holidays.
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.