V Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform Vanta · Remote U.S., US LLM agent USD 224k–263k/yr

ContentBuffer; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Parental Leave (16+ weeks)

Wellness stipend

Remote workspace stipend

Commuter benefits

401(k) matching

Flexible PTO + Sick Time

11 company-paid holidays

Team events and virtual activities

Job summary

Vanta is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform to build, operate, and improve reusable AI platform capabilities. You will own the runtime for agentic workflows, strengthen tool design and context management, and partner with product teams to ship reliable, scalable AI features.

You’ll work on durable execution, model integrations, evaluation tools, and end-to-end platform ownership across reliability, observability, and data security. Remote-friendly US-based role.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows.
• Experience with durable execution platforms and retries.
• Ability to translate platform decisions into developer outcomes.
• Effective communication across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.
• Integrate durable execution infra for long-running agent workflows incl. checkpointing.
• Evolve the agent harness runtime for tool calling, context, memory and orchestration.
• Develop evaluation and debugging tools to turn failures into improvements.
• Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery.
• Own platform capabilities through rollout, reliability, observability and security.
• Partner with product teams to prototype solutions and drive adoption.

Skills

Backend engineering

LLM-powered systems

Agentic workflows

Durable execution

Workflow orchestration

Context management

Observability

Data security

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

How does the team impact the business?

We help teams deliver AI capabilities faster, improve customer outcomes, and manage reliability, latency, and cost across Vanta's AI products.

What gaps will this hire fill?

This hire will expand our ability to turn applied AI experiments into reliable, reusable platform capabilities. They will combine hands-on implementation with evaluation, operational ownership, and close product-team partnership.

Why join this team?

Your work can improve AI experiences across Vanta. Challenges include reliable agent execution, useful retrieval and context, reproducible evaluations, and tools that help engineers investigate and fix AI failures.

Growth trajectory

Grow from owning a platform capability end to end to leading broader technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and shaping capabilities adopted across teams.

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

What you'll do as a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Vanta:

• Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.
• Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows, including checkpointing, retries, human-in-the-loop steps, and recovery from partial failures.
• Evolve our agent harness, the runtime for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration.
• Develop evaluation and debugging tools that turn production failures into measurable improvements and regression coverage.
• Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery to support accurate, useful AI behavior.
• Own platform capabilities through rollout and operation, including reliability, observability, performance, and secure handling of customer data.
• Partner with product teams to prototype solutions, identify common needs, and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities.

How to be successful in this role:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms.
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes.
• Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms and designing for idempotency, retries, and long-running state.
• Familiarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs.
• Practical evaluation experience: defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring whether changes improve outcomes.
• Product judgment: connecting platform decisions to developer needs and customer outcomes.
• Ownership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment.
• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.

What you can expect as a Vanta's:

• 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 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.

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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.