Vanta

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Integrations Platform

Vanta$150K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of backend development experience with scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
  • Expertise in platform and API design, including RESTful APIs and security protocols.
  • Proven experience with data integrations from external systems, focusing on best practices.
  • Strong systems thinking, anticipating risks related to scale and reliability.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams and influence cross-organizational decisions.
  • Experience in creating sample integrations and documentation for internal enablement.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical strategy for platform areas to support rapid growth.
  • Design and evolve APIs and primitives for internal and external use.
  • Own authentication and data ingestion mechanisms for secure integrations.
  • Build scalable backend services and developer tools to enhance productivity.
  • Drive best practices in performance and operational excellence.
  • Mentor colleagues and establish standardized design patterns for the team.
  • Leverage TypeScript, React, and Node.js in development processes.

Benefits

  • Industry-competitive salary and equity.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees.
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave for new parents.
  • Health & wellness stipend.
  • Remote workspace stipend for internet and cellphone.
  • 401(k) matching contributions with immediate vesting.
  • Flexible PTO and 80 hours of sick time annually.
  • 11 paid company holidays each year.
  • Opportunities for virtual team-building activities.
  • Offices located in major cities worldwide, including SF and NYC.
Full Job Description
Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale.

Vanta's team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it's essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta's growth.

Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We're growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

The Integrations Platform team mission is to power the world's largest trust automation ecosystem, enabling any person or agent to build, connect, and automate trust seamlessly. We own Vanta's integration ecosystem, which currently includes over 400 integrations across Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Identity Providers, Mobile Device Management (MDM), and Human Resources Information System (HRIS). We are focused on developing the Integration Platform. This includes creating shared primitives for authentication, lifecycle, observability, and publishing to ensure all integrations are built on the same foundation. Our North Star is to eliminate the barrier to building integrations entirely. We aim to enable anyone to create an integration in minutes using declarative, low-code, and no-code patterns, supercharged by AI Agents.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

What you'll do as a Senior Backend Software Engineer, Integrations Platform at Vanta:
  • Set technical strategy and direction for critical platform surface areas, staying ahead of rapid growth.
  • Design and evolve the APIs, primitives, and self-service golden paths that internal teams, partners, and customers build on.
  • Own the authentication, data-ingestion, and schema-evolution primitives that keep integrations with external systems secure and reliable at scale.
  • Build secure, well-documented, scalable backend services and developer tooling (including CI/CD) that propel engineering productivity.
  • Drive performance, operational excellence, and SDLC best practices; make and defend buy-vs-build and one-way-door decisions.
  • Act as a force multiplier: mentor and uplevel teammates, and set the design patterns the team standardizes on.
  • Build with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, and use AI tools to accelerate development and workflows.


How to be successful in this role:
  • 8+ years of backend development building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
  • Platform and API design: you've evolved core APIs, SDKs, and platform abstractions, with deep expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication protocols (OAuth, API keys, JWT), and security best practices.
  • Data Integrations: you've built resilient data ingestion from external systems, including integrations with cloud providers, HRIS platforms, identity providers, and code repositories. You champion best practices such as rate limiting, retries and idempotency, webhooks, and handling schema drift.
  • Systems thinking at scale: you design for scale, reliability and failure modes. You look around corners and proactively identify and address risk.
  • Technical leadership and cross-team influence: you've led teams and complex projects, and influenced decisions across the organization.
  • Internal Enablement and Evangelism: you build sample integrations, POCs, AI Skills, documentation, and workshops to help internal engineering teams onboard quickly to the platform.

Bonus: startup or bias-for-action environments, greenfield work, multi-region or Gov deployments, and prior experience in security or compliance products.
  • 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.


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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About Vanta

Vanta is a software company that provides automated security and compliance solutions for businesses. The company's platform offers a range of services, including risk assessments, compliance monitoring, and security audits. Vanta's platform is designed to help businesses manage their security and compliance needs more efficiently and effectively. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Vanta
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2017
Revenue
$1 million

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