About the job
At Vanta, we are driven by our mission to empower businesses to earn and demonstrate trust. We believe in continuously monitoring and verifying security, enabling companies to adopt superior security practices effortlessly. Our team is not only kind but also exceptionally skilled, with many members thriving without prior security experience.
The Foundations team is integral to Vanta’s architecture and plays a vital role in unlocking both current and future products. We manage, process, and deliver the essential resource and evidence data that fuels Vanta. As part of this team, you will work on systems that serve as the source of truth, supporting Vanta's core compliance and auditing functionalities.
We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who excels in rapid deployment, effectively addresses real customer challenges, and builds scalable, reliable systems.
Explore our Vanta Engineering Blog to discover more about our team's innovative projects!
Key Responsibilities:
Enhance the scalability and reliability of our core data systems, ensuring they are robust as we grow.
Define and advance our approach to modeling, storing, and querying resource data across Vanta.
Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to grasp user needs and prioritize impactful tasks.
Deliver quickly and experiment thoughtfully to validate ideas and accelerate product development.
Serve as a cultural role model, exemplifying effective collaborative engineering and mentoring junior team members.
Make informed trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
Lead initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and quality of execution across the engineering organization.
Success Factors:
Possess 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
Demonstrate proficiency in operating robust distributed systems and tackling scaling challenges, with familiarity in event-driven architecture.
Show a deep commitment to understanding and solving customer problems.
Exhibit strong problem-solving skills and an ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.

