Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Resilience

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

Vanta’s new Enterprise Resilience team is being formed to support the next era of growth by powering services that are reliable, scalable, and resilient by design. As our customer base expands and our systems scale, we need a dedicated group focused on partnering closely with product engineering teams to build and operate robust distributed systems across all of Vanta’s environments, including our new FedRAMP deployment. In this role, you’ll help define the foundations of reliability at Vanta including shaping best practices, building core infrastructure, and guiding teams as they design services that perform consistently for customers.

This team will have a broad and deep impact across product engineering. Your work will influence how every Vanta engineer builds, deploys, monitors, and maintains their services, whether for our commercial environment or regulated customers with more stringent requirements. You’ll develop tools and frameworks that make it easier to detect and remediate issues, improve operational readiness, and support feature development that meets the needs of increasingly large and complex enterprise customers.

Vanta engineers design and develop new product functionality and infrastructure using modern frameworks and tooling, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, GitHub Actions, and AWS services such as Fargate and ECS.

If you're excited to help define a new function, raise the reliability bar across an entire engineering organization, and build systems that scale with Vanta’s growth, we’d love to meet you.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering to learn more about what our team is working on!

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

• Define and evolve Vanta’s production reliability framework, including SLOs, incident response patterns, observability standards, service catalog, metrics dashboards, and the Vanta SLA definition
• Improve incident response workflows and systems for faster recovery
• Engineer reliability improvements for CI and deploy workflows, reducing production friction and operational load, while maintaining deployment velocity
• Collaborate with product teams to embed reliability best practices, guiding operational readiness reviews and helping teams design for resilience
• Identify and solve complex scalability and performance challenges, particularly related to service reliability and data throughput
• Build and operate the systems that power Vanta’s FedRAMP environments, including automated release, vulnerability remediation, and evidence generation pipelines that meet strict compliance timelines
• Design and maintain Vanta’s vulnerability management platform, automating detection, remediation, and compliance reporting across both FedRAMP and non-FedRAMP environments
• Lead design and improvement of datacenter and environment build-outs for future FedRAMP levels and regional expansion
• Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it
• Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow

How to be successful in this role

• You have experience operating services in multiple environments requiring strict compliance
• You’ve been the technical lead in successfully driving large scale reliability initiatives across an entire product engineering organization
• You’ve played technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams
• You have experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments
• You care deeply about empowering other teams to build highly resilient and scalable production services
• You’re thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when creating highly available infrastructure/services
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

Work Authorization Requirements

• You must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

What you can expect as a Vanta'n

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 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

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.

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