Senior Platform Engineer, Product Platform (Remote)

Apply; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote work stipend

Health insurance

Flexible PTO

Company holidays

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Product Platform to help design and build scalable shared components and libraries that power multiple engineering teams. You will work on Applications Primitives and Libraries & Foundations, shaping APIs and services that others build on top of.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering, drive architectural decisions, uphold standards, write thorough docs, and contribute to Vanta's engineering culture as we scale.

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 - a platform mindset is critical
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or message queue systems (Kafka, SQS, pub/sub)
• Excellent communication skills - able to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design stakeholders, and to clearly articulate technical trade-offs
• Track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code with sound judgment on architectural decisions
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries that multiple engineering teams depend on - whether that's shared customer-facing components (Applications Primitives) or internal abstractions (Libraries & Foundations)
• Partner deeply with product engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into clean, well-documented APIs and services
• Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries, with a focus on developer experience and platform scalability
• Define and uphold engineering standards for shared components, ensuring consistency, performance, and security across the systems you own
• Participate actively in code review, design discussions, and technical planning - raising the engineering quality bar for your team and beyond
• Write and maintain thorough documentation for the systems and libraries you build, enabling engineers across the org to use and contribute to them
• Contribute to building Vanta's engineering culture as we scale

Skills

Backend/Fullstack experience

Platform/Shared infrastructure

APIs & services

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Communication skills

AI in software engineering

Job description

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Product Platform to help design and build scalable shared components and libraries that power multiple engineering teams. You will work on Applications Primitives and Libraries & Foundations, shaping APIs and services that others build on top of.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering, drive architectural decisions, uphold standards, write thorough docs, and contribute to Vanta's engineering culture as we scale.