Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

vanta; Canada (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-competitive salary & equity

Medical, Dental, Vision: 100% covered

16 weeks parental leave

Health & Wellness stipend

Remote workspace stipend

401(k) matching

Flexible hours & location

Open PTO policy

11 company holidays

Wellness platform memberships

Team-building events

Job summary

Vanta's Developer Experience team builds the tools engineers use daily to bring ideas to production rapidly and reliably. You’ll empower other Vanta engineers to leverage cutting‑edge technologies and best practices at a platform level.

You will lead development of CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and AI-powered dev tools, ensuring scalable, high‑performing engineering workflows across the organization.

Qualifications

• You have led DevEx or platform teams and understand developer tooling.
• You design and build CI/CD and scalable deployment workflows.
• You value performance, reliability, and usability in daily tools.

Responsibilities

• Set direction for critical dev infrastructure to support rapid growth.
• Design and build CI/CD and build systems for reliable shipping.
• Improve deployment workflows (hotfixes, rollbacks, incident mitigation).
• Lead development of tools to accelerate feedback loops (typechecking, linting, tests, deployments).
• Build and maintain scalable dev environments and test infrastructure.
• Introduce and scale AI-enhanced developer tools.
• Collaborate with engineers to impact customers and security improvements.
• Contribute to engineering culture as the company grows.

Skills

Technical leadership

CI/CD

Scaling developer workflows

Performance focus

Reliability

Product sense

Tools

TypeScript

React

Node.js

MongoDB

GitHub Actions

AWS Fargate

AWS ECS

Job description

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust.We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

Vanta’s Developer Experience team builds the tools engineers use every day to bring ideas to production rapidly and reliably. You’ll empower other Vanta engineers to leverage cutting‑edge technologies and best practices to make Vanta more performant and scalable on a platform level. Example projects include modernizing our CI/CD pipelines, introducing new test frameworks, launching AI‑powered dev tools, and scaling developer environments to support a growing engineering team.

This team has a wide breadth of impact across all of product engineering. The work we do compounds in value by making it easier for engineers to diagnose and solve bugs, streamline workflows, and ship value to our customers quickly and safely.

Vanta engineers design and develop new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, Github Actions, and various AWS services such as Fargate and ECS.

Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us!

You will:

• Set direction for critical dev infrastructure, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth

• Design and build CI and build systems that ensure Vanta engineers can develop and ship robust products quickly and confidently

• Improve the efficiency and reliability of our deployment workflows, including tools for hotfixes, rollbacks, and incident mitigation

• Lead development of tools that accelerate feedback loops — from typechecking and linting to running tests and deploying changes

• Build and maintain scalable development environments, test infrastructure, and core dev tooling

• Introduce and scale AI‑enhanced developer tools that help engineers move faster, write better code, and reduce toil

• Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it

• Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow

How to be successful in this role:

• You’ve played technical leadership roles on DevEx or platform teams

• You have experience with build systems, CI/CD, and scaling developer workflows in fast‑growing environments

• You care deeply about performance, reliability, and usability, especially in tools used daily by engineers

• You’re thoughtful about trade‑offs and have good product sense when building internal tools

What you can expect as a Vanta'n:

• Industry‑Competitive Salary and Equity

• 100% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits with Dependents Coverage

• 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All New Parents (Moms, Dads, Adoptive, Foster)

• Health & Wellness Stipend

• Remote Workspace Stipend

• 401(k) Matching Plan

• Flexible Work Hours and Location

• Open & Encouraged PTO Policy

• 11 Company Paid Holidays

• Free Memberships to Online Wellness Platforms (One Medical, Ginger, Headspace, and more!)

• Virtual Team Building Activities, Lunch and Learns, and other Company-Wide Events

• Offices in SF and NYC with Hubs of Vantans forming across the US, including but not limited to, Seattle, Austin, Indianapolis, LA, Boston, and more!

At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high‑profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast‑growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation.Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world’s leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point‑in‑time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that’s real‑time and transparent.