Senior Backend Software Engineer, Identity
- Description:
- At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data.
- Vanta’s product monitors the security posture for thousands of companies, pulling tens of millions of API calls of data per day.
- As a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to provide a strong foundation for our infrastructure.
- Your work will be fundamental to Vanta's success with enterprise customers, where robust identity management is essential to earning trust with sensitive data.
- Requirements:
- Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
- Strong knowledge of authentication protocols (OIDC, SAML) and identity federation concepts (SSO), or authorization frameworks (RBAC, policy-based access control)
- Experience building platform services that scale across multiple teams
- Strong data modeling skills for systems with complex relationships
- Experience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and security
- Success with complex technical migrations that maintain system stability
- Security-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practices
- Have led technical projects spanning months
- Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with other engineers
- Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow
- Benefits:
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
- 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
- Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours and location
- Open PTO policy
- 11 paid holidays in the US
- Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, and Sydney
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