Full Stack Software Engineer, Resiliency Engineering Platforms

Vanguard; Wayne (PA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard's Resiliency Engineering team is building enterprise-scale platforms that enhance reliability and recoverability of critical services. Pulse, Vanguard's synthetic monitoring platform, enables onboarding in minutes and continuous validation of user journeys before clients experience issues.

As an Engineer, you will design and develop cloud-native services, APIs, and automation to advance predictive resiliency.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years related work experience.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience building enterprise-scale software platforms.
• Strong experience with cloud-native development and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provides advanced system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and platforms.
• Designs and develops cloud-native services, APIs, integrations, and automation workflows.
• Leads technical design discussions and contributes to platform architecture decisions.
• Develops scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Partners with SREs, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to solve resiliency challenges.
• Creates reusable frameworks and automation to improve resiliency outcomes.
• Develops AI-enabled capabilities, skills, or agents to reduce toil.
• Mentors engineers and participates in code reviews, testing, and production support.
• Contributes to observability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence initiatives.

Skills

Three years experience

SRE collaboration

Software design

Education

Undergraduate degree in related field

Tools

NodeJS / TypeScript

Java

Python

Angular

PostgreSQL

AWS Lambda

CloudFormation

SQS / EventBridge

GitHub Enterprise

Grafana

AI frameworks

Job description

Resiliency Engineering Team is Vanguard's Resiliency Engineering team focused on building enterprise platforms that improve the reliability, recoverability, and resilience of Vanguard's critical business services. Our portfolio includes Pulse, Vanguard's enterprise synthetic monitoring platform that enables teams to onboard in minutes and continuously validate critical user journeys before clients experience issues. Pulse helps engineering teams proactively identify service degradation, validate customer workflows, and improve operational confidence through automated monitoring and resiliency testing. We also own Enterprise Resiliency Insights, Vanguard's evolving enterprise resiliency intelligence platform. Our vision extends beyond dashboards and scorecards to create a single source of truth for resiliency posture that continuously validates controls, identifies risks, automates evidence collection, and provides actionable guidance to engineers, application owners, SREs, and leadership. As we continue to modernize our platforms, we are exploring AI-powered experiences, intelligent agents, automated recommendations, and next-generation user experiences that transform how resiliency is measured, understood, and improved across the enterprise.

What You'll Help Build

As an Engineer, you will design and develop enterprise-scale software solutions that help Vanguard move from reactive operations to predictive and autonomous resiliency.

You will contribute to:

• Expansion of Pulse synthetic monitoring capabilities and onboarding experiences.
• Enterprise resiliency intelligence services and automation platforms.
• Cloud-native APIs, services, integrations, and event-driven architectures.
• Automated resiliency validation, policy enforcement, and evidence collection.
• AI-powered agents and skills that solve recurring resiliency problems across subdivisions.
• Solutions that identify risks, recommend actions, and improve operational efficiency.
• Next-generation experiences for resiliency visibility and operational intelligence.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Core Responsibilities

• Provides advanced system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and platforms.
• Designs and develops cloud-native services, APIs, integrations, and automation workflows.
• Leads technical design discussions and contributes to platform architecture decisions.
• Develops scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Partners with SREs, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to solve enterprise resiliency challenges.
• Creates reusable frameworks and automation that improve resiliency outcomes.
• Develops AI-enabled capabilities, skills, or agents that reduce operational toil and improve decision making.
• Mentors engineers and participates in code reviews, testing, and production support.
• Contributes to observability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence initiatives.

We Heavily Rely On

• NodeJS / TypeScript
• Java
• Python
• Angular
• PostgreSQL
• AWS Lambda
• CloudFormation
• SQS / EventBridge
• GitHub Enterprise
• Grafana
• AI Development Frameworks and Agent Technologies

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years related work experience.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise-scale software platforms.
• Strong experience with cloud-native development and distributed systems.
• Experience developing APIs, integrations, or event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with observability, resiliency, or platform engineering concepts.
• Experience developing automation and engineering productivity solutions.

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.