Senior Platform Engineer, Product & Libraries

Vanta; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work stipend

Health coverage

Parental leave 16 weeks

401(k) matching

Flexible PTO

Office in SF/NYC

Job summary

Vanta is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Product Platform group to build shared foundations that power all engineering teams. This role spans Applications Primitives and Libraries & Foundations, focusing on scalable systems and developer-facing APIs.

You will influence architecture, review code, and document systems so teams across Vanta can ship faster and more reliably. A 5+ year backend or full-stack background with distributed systems experience is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or fullstack software engineering experience, with a focus on platform, shared infrastructure, or developer-facing systems.
• Experience building shared APIs, services, or platform components used by multiple engineering teams.
• Familiarity with distributed systems architecture and message queues.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries used by multiple teams.
• Partner with product engineering to translate needs into well-documented APIs and services.
• Drive architectural decisions and ensure platform scalability and security.
• Define engineering standards for shared components and participate in code reviews.
• Write thorough documentation to enable engineers across the org to build on top of the platforms.

Skills

Platform engineering

APIs design

Distributed systems

Communication

Tools

Kafka

SQS

pub/sub

Job description

Vanta is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Product Platform group to build shared foundations that power all engineering teams. This role spans Applications Primitives and Libraries & Foundations, focusing on scalable systems and developer-facing APIs.

You will influence architecture, review code, and document systems so teams across Vanta can ship faster and more reliably. A 5+ year backend or full-stack background with distributed systems experience is expected.