Senior Backend Software Engineer, Identity

🕒 May 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $195k - $229k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Vanta

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

📋 Compliance

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

💰 $40M Series B on 2022-10

Compliance • Security • SaaS

Vanta is a trust management platform that streamlines compliance workflows and enhances security programs for businesses. By leveraging automation, Vanta helps companies achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR. It offers solutions for companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, ensuring security and compliance at scale. With integrations with over 375 tools, Vanta leverages AI to simplify tasks such as questionnaire automation and vendor risk management. Vanta empowers service providers and auditors to deliver efficient and satisfactory experiences, helping businesses build trust with their clients and partners.

📋 Description

• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale • Collaborate with Security to ensure Vanta's platform implements best practices for customer data • Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs • Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members • Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation • Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization

🎯 Requirements

• Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development • Strong knowledge of authentication protocols (OIDC, SAML) and identity federation concepts (SSO), or authorization frameworks (RBAC, policy-based access control) • Experience building platform services that scale across multiple teams • Strong data modeling skills for systems with complex relationships • Experience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and security • Success with complex technical migrations that maintain system stability • Security-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practices • Have led technical projects spanning months • Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done • Experience mentoring and collaborating with other engineers • Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• 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!