Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Security

About the Role

Vanta’s Infrastructure & Security team provides a platform that powers the scalability, performance, and reliability of Vanta’s core systems. As our customer base continues to grow rapidly, we need infrastructure that scales with us without compromising speed or developer productivity. You’ll work on distributed systems, infrastructure primitives, and security enhancements that enable our engineers to ship reliable software at scale.

This team has a wide breadth of impact across all of product engineering. Our work touches every corner of product engineering and compounds in value; we make 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 leveraging modern frameworks and tooling, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, Github Actions, and various AWS services such as Fargate and ECS. We have a kind, talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have succeeded here without it. If you're excited to work at the intersection of infrastructure and security, we’d love to meet you. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

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, etc.), 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.

How to be successful in this role

• You’ve played technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams.
• You have experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments.
• You care deeply about performance and reliability.
• You’re thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when creating new infrastructure.
• 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 in Canada

• Industry-competitive salary and equity.
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage.
• Pension contribution.
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents.
• Health & wellness stipend.
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
• Flexible work hours and location.
• 21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave.
• 11 company-paid holidays.
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

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.

Key skills/competency

• Senior Software Engineer
• Infrastructure
• Security
• AWS
• Scalability
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Container Orchestration
• Performance
• Reliability