Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Security

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Security at Vanta

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, empowering companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, where individuals from diverse backgrounds thrive, some with prior security experience and many without.

Vanta’s Infrastructure & Security team provides a robust platform that powers the scalability, performance, and reliability of Vanta’s core systems. As our customer base continues to grow rapidly, we require infrastructure that can scale effectively without compromising speed or developer productivity. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing distributed systems, infrastructure primitives, and crucial security enhancements that enable our engineers to ship reliable software at scale.

This team plays a pivotal role, with a wide breadth of impact across all of product engineering. Our work touches every corner of product engineering, compounding in value by making it easier for engineers to diagnose bugs, build features, and deliver value to customers quickly and safely.

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

If you're excited to work at the intersection of infrastructure and security, we’d love to meet you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable infrastructure to support rapid growth in data volume, service usage, and engineering velocity.
• Lead projects across our cloud infrastructure, including container orchestration (e.g., AWS Fargate, ECS), monitoring and alerting systems, networking, and database maintenance.
• Implement and maintain core security infrastructure and controls, including service-to-service authentication, secrets management, application security primitives (e.g., rate-limiting, encryption libraries), and infrastructure hardening.
• Identify and solve complex scalability and performance challenges, particularly related to service reliability and data throughput.
• Partner closely with Security Engineering to implement infrastructure that supports best-in-class security and compliance practices.
• Drive infrastructure design reviews and provide technical guidance on architectural decisions and trade-offs.
• 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.

What You Bring:

• Experience in technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams.
• Proven experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments.
• A deep commitment to performance and reliability.
• Thoughtfulness about trade-offs and strong product sense when creating new infrastructure.
• Openness to using AI to amplify skills, 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.

Key Skills/Competency:

• Infrastructure Engineering
• Cloud Security
• Distributed Systems
• AWS Services (Fargate, ECS)
• Scalability & Performance
• Node.js & TypeScript
• MongoDB
• Site Reliability
• Container Orchestration
• Security Controls