Remote Platform Engineer - Scale & Developer Experience

CV in; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work within US

Competitive compensation

Healthcare and 401(k)

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform to architect and deliver foundational platform components used by dozens of engineering teams. You will own shared systems that power customer features and internal tools, balancing scalability with secure, maintainable interfaces.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, and security engineers to align roadmaps with business goals and compliance requirements, delivering end-to-end platform features with strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend, platform, or developer-facing systems.
• Experience designing shared APIs, services, or platform components.
• Strong collaboration with product, design, and security teams.
• Comfort reading and contributing to JavaScript/TypeScript at scale.
• Willingness to leverage AI to improve efficiency with responsible usage.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver foundational platform components and libraries.
• Partner with product teams to translate needs into clean APIs.
• Drive architectural decisions with a focus on scalability and developer experience.
• Define engineering standards for shared components, ensuring security and performance.
• Own end-to-end delivery from discovery to rollout and observability.

Skills

Platform mindset

JavaScript/TypeScript

Distributed systems

APIs / services design

Communication

Ownership & accountability

AI augmentation

Tools

Kafka

SQS

pub/sub

TypeScript

Job description

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform to architect and deliver foundational platform components used by dozens of engineering teams. You will own shared systems that power customer features and internal tools, balancing scalability with secure, maintainable interfaces.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, and security engineers to align roadmaps with business goals and compliance requirements, delivering end-to-end platform features with strong