Senior Platform Engineer — Build Shared APIs (Remote)

Vanta Inc.; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote workspace stipend

Flexible work hours and location

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Pension contribution

Equity

Job summary

Vanta Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Product Platform group to design and ship scalable, shared libraries and APIs used by multiple product teams across the company.

You will collaborate with product engineers to translate needs into clean interfaces, drive architecture decisions, and uphold standards for performance and security while contributing to Vanta's culture of engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or fullstack software engineering experience, with a focus on platform, shared infrastructure, or developer-facing systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries used by multiple engineering teams.
• Partner with product engineering teams to translate needs into clean, well-documented APIs and services.
• Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries for scalability and developer experience.
• Define and uphold engineering standards for shared components, ensuring performance and security.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning to raise engineering quality.
• Write thorough documentation for the systems and libraries you build.

Skills

Platform engineering

APIs

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

AI usage

Tools

Kafka

SQS

Pub/Sub

Job description

Vanta Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Product Platform group to design and ship scalable, shared libraries and APIs used by multiple product teams across the company.

You will collaborate with product engineers to translate needs into clean interfaces, drive architecture decisions, and uphold standards for performance and security while contributing to Vanta's culture of engineering excellence.