Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vanta is a company focused on helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Core Platform team, you will lead technical strategy across infrastructure and security systems, enabling the engineering organization to build and ship products efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic technical initiatives across Core Platform's infrastructure and security domains, setting the technical direction for foundational systems that enable all of Vanta's engineering teams to ship quickly and securely
- Design and evolve internal platforms and paved roads that abstract away infrastructure and security complexity, enabling product teams to ship independently and safely
- Drive multi-quarter platform projects that improve infrastructure reliability, and security posture across the organization, including AWS services (ECS, Fargate, Lambda), MongoDB optimization, and event-driven architecture
- Build platform capabilities for enterprise and regulated environments, including FedRAMP-aligned infrastructure, secure environments, and compliance-ready deployment patterns
- Partner closely with product engineering, security, and leadership to understand developer needs, identify friction, and translate them into scalable platform solutions
- Champion engineering excellence by mentoring senior engineers, influencing architecture across teams, and institutionalizing best practices for platform reliability, operability, and developer experience
Skills
- Deep industry experience with expertise in platform engineering, infrastructure systems, or backend architecture
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple quarters and teams in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Mastery in system design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS), with demonstrated experience building and scaling platform systems that serve internal engineering teams
- Experience with containerized deployments (e.g. ECS, Fargate), database management (MongoDB preferred), security hardening practices and thinking in terms of platform level abstractions and UX for developers, not just underlying infrastructure
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across the organization, consistently upleveling teams and presenting effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong technical foundation in modern backend technologies; experience with TypeScript, Node.js, event-driven architecture and GraphQL is a plus
Benefits
- 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!
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
- Pension contribution
- Flexible work hours and location
- 21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave
Company Overview
Vanta is a trust management platform that automates compliance and risk management. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://vanta.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Vanta has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 6 in 2026, 23 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 10 in 2022, 3 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.