Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale.Vanta’s product monitors the security posture for thousands of companies, pulling tens of millions of API calls of data per day, pushing information from hundreds of thousands of laptop agents, and running tests against that data continuously to identify potential security threats. Our infrastructure and tooling need to stay ahead of exponential growth in our customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to provide a strong foundation for our infrastructure to scale with our business. You will also drive complex projects across our technical stack and mentor our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth.Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team at Vanta:The Identity team at Vanta is building the critical foundation that powers our entire security platform as we scale to serve enterprise customers. Our team focuses on two core pillars: authentication systems that provide secure access to our platform, and authorization frameworks that enable fine-grained permission controls. As we expand upmarket, we're facing interesting challenges that require thoughtful evolution of our identity infrastructure. In this role, you'll help design composable and extensible systems for complex user data modeling, support our evolution toward policy-based authorization, and establish clean interface contracts for identity services. You'll tackle complex challenges at the intersection of security, scalability, and user experience, while influencing how multiple engineering teams integrate with our identity platform. Your work will be fundamental to Vanta's success with enterprise customers, where robust identity management is essential to earning trust with sensitive data.You will also:Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scaleCollaborate with Security to ensure Vanta's platform implements best practices for customer dataSupport design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offsAct as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team membersMake effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundationDrive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organizationHow to be successful in this role:Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend developmentStrong 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 teamsStrong data modeling skills for systems with complex relationshipsExperience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and securitySuccess with complex technical migrations that maintain system stabilitySecurity-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practicesHave led technical projects spanning monthsWork well in environments that value decisive action and getting things doneExperience mentoring and collaborating with other engineersInterest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we growOpen to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen the ... (truncated, view full listing at source)