Sr. Backend Software Engineer, Integrations Platform

Vanta Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Remote workspace stipend

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Vanta is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead and mentor engineers while delivering high-value products. You’ll set technical direction and drive complex projects across our stack, enabling our security-focused platform to scale with business growth.

You’ll build secure backend services with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, own APIs, authentication, and data ingestion, and help accelerate development with AI-assisted workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development building reliable, scalable systems.
• Platform and API design including RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Experience with authentication protocols (OAuth, API keys, JWT) and security best practices.
• Data integrations from external systems with rate limiting, retries, idempotency, webhooks.
• Systems thinking at scale; reliability and failure mode focus.
• Technical leadership and cross-team influence; mentoring teammates.
• Internal enablement via docs, sample integrations and POCs.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy and direction for critical platform areas, staying ahead of rapid growth.
• Design and evolve the APIs, primitives, and self-service golden paths that internal teams, partners, and customers build on.
• Own the authentication, data-ingestion, and schema-evolution primitives that keep integrations secure and scalable.
• Build secure, well-documented backend services and developer tooling (including CI/CD).
• Drive performance, operational excellence, and SDLC best practices; buy-vs-build decisions.
• Mentor and uplevel teammates; set team design patterns.
• Build with TypeScript, React, and Node.js; use AI tools to accelerate development.

Skills

Backend architecture

API design

REST & GraphQL

OAuth/JWT

Security best practices

TypeScript

React

Node.js

CI/CD

AI tooling

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Git

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.

Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale.

Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth.

Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

The Integrations Platform team mission is to power the world’s largest trust automation ecosystem, enabling any person or agent to build, connect, and automate trust seamlessly. We own Vanta’s integration ecosystem, which currently includes over 400 integrations across Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Identity Providers, Mobile Device Management (MDM), and Human Resources Information System (HRIS). We are focused on developing the Integration Platform. This includes creating shared primitives for authentication, lifecycle, observability, and publishing to ensure all integrations are built on the same foundation. Our North Star is to eliminate the barrier to building integrations entirely. We aim to enable anyone to create an integration in minutes using declarative, low-code, and no-code patterns, supercharged by AI Agents.

What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta:

• Set technical strategy and direction for critical platform surface areas, staying ahead of rapid growth.
• Design and evolve the APIs, primitives, and self-service golden paths that internal teams, partners, and customers build on.
• Own the authentication, data-ingestion, and schema-evolution primitives that keep integrations with external systems secure and reliable at scale.
• Build secure, well-documented, scalable backend services and developer tooling (including CI/CD) that propel engineering productivity.
• Drive performance, operational excellence, and SDLC best practices; make and defend buy-vs-build and one-way-door decisions.
• Act as a force multiplier: mentor and uplevel teammates, and set the design patterns the team standardizes on.
• Build with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, and use AI tools to accelerate development and workflows.

How to be successful in this role:

• 8+ years of backend development building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Platform and API design: you've evolved core APIs, SDKs, and platform abstractions, with deep expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication protocols (OAuth, API keys, JWT), and security best practices.
• Data Integrations: you've built resilient data ingestion from external systems, including integrations with cloud providers, HRIS platforms, identity providers, and code repositories. You champion best practices such as rate limiting, retries and idempotency, webhooks, and handling schema drift.
• Systems thinking at scale: you design for scale, reliability and failure modes. You look around corners and proactively identify and address risk.
• Technical leadership and cross-team influence: you've led teams and complex projects, and influenced decisions across the organization.
• Internal Enablement and Evangelism: you build sample integrations, POCs, AI Skills, documentation, and workshops to help internal engineering teams onboard quickly to the platform.

Bonus:

• 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.

What you can expect as a Vanta’n:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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.