Senior AI DX Engineer - Build Autonomous Dev Tools (Remote)

Vanta; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & equity

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Health & wellness stipend

Remote work stipend

Commuter benefits

Family planning benefits

401(k) matching

Flexible PTO

Sick time (80 hours)

Company holidays (11)

Team events

Office locations in SF, NYC, London, &

Other global offices

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AI DX team to help build autonomous software systems that empower engineers with reliable AI-enabled workflows. You’ll partner with engineers to reduce friction, evaluate agent performance, and drive quality through real usage data.

You will shape the foundations of an autonomous software factory, craft practical solutions, and deliver measurable improvements in reliability, security, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Substantial industry software engineering experience.
• Experience taking technical leadership roles on teams or complex projects.
• Experience improving AI systems, creating evaluation sets, and driving quality through measurement and iteration.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, building, testing, and operating reliable systems.
• Experience with developer tooling, AI-enabled workflows, agentic systems, infrastructure, or related technical domains.
• Track record of working through ambiguity, decomposing complex problems, managing dependencies, and helping projects reach completion.
• Experience working in rapidly scaling startups or larger companies with bias for action.
• Action-oriented approach and willingness to engage directly with users and contribute hands-on.
• Product judgment and curiosity: strong technical opinions while focusing on platform usability for users.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to explain technical concepts clearly and create user-guidance.
• Collaborative approach and ability to contribute as part of a team.
• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify skills and strengthen outcomes with sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Plan, build, and improve background-agent infrastructure for reliable, trackable automated engineering work.
• Develop systems for evaluating agent performance using outcomes, quality measures, human intervention, cost, and signals.
• Create evaluation sets and feedback loops to help AI systems improve through review, tuning, and correction.
• Improve how engineers discover, understand, and use shared AI tools and workflows.
• Evaluate AI development tools and help integrate those that prove useful.
• Develop visibility into which tools and workflows are valuable and where to evolve them.
• Create documentation to help engineers adopt new AI-enabled practices.
• Improve code review workflows by using feedback from real engineering work to reduce friction.
• Support autonomous software factory foundations for task completion.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to understand needs and make thoughtful product tradeoffs.
• Help move ambiguous projects from exploration to reliable delivery.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

AI systems improvement

Developer tooling

AI-enabled workflows

Ambiguity handling

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Hands-on coding

Quality & testing

Job description

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AI DX team to help build autonomous software systems that empower engineers with reliable AI-enabled workflows. You’ll partner with engineers to reduce friction, evaluate agent performance, and drive quality through real usage data.

You will shape the foundations of an autonomous software factory, craft practical solutions, and deliver measurable improvements in reliability, security, and developer experience.