Lead Software Engineer, Identity & Security Platform (Remote)

Trustpage; United States Virgin Islands; On-site; USD 195,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary and equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

16 weeks parental leave

Remote work stipend

401(k) matching

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team to shape authentication, authorization, and agent behavior at scale. You will lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and partner with Security to implement best practices for customer data in a rapidly growing security platform.

The role emphasizes driving complex projects, governance of identity primitives, and delivering reliable infrastructure to support thousands of customer integrations.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Backend development

Authentication protocols

Identity federation (SSO)

RBAC / policy-based access control

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Project leadership

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team to shape authentication, authorization, and agent behavior at scale. You will lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and partner with Security to implement best practices for customer data in a rapidly growing security platform.

The role emphasizes driving complex projects, governance of identity primitives, and delivering reliable infrastructure to support thousands of customer integrations.