Salesforce Platform Engineer

About the role

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring and verification. We are seeking a Salesforce Platform Engineer to join our growing team.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement modern CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce using GitHub and Gearset, including branching strategy, automated deployments, and release gating
• Establish engineering standards across the SF team: peer review, linting, testing frameworks, branch hygiene, and code quality enforcement
• Implement feature flag infrastructure for safer rollouts and progressive delivery on the Salesforce platform
• Prepare our repository and tooling for AI-assisted development workflows (harness engineering, evals, automated review)
• Build and maintain sandbox and scratch org management processes, including automated seeding of representative test data so developers can work productively
• Instrument observability — logging, monitoring, alerting — across our Salesforce environment so we can detect and diagnose issues quickly
• Contribute as a Salesforce engineer building features in Apex, LWC, and Flow alongside continued ownership of the Platform/DX domain
• Champion Platform Engineering best practices, testing, and release discipline with teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of Salesforce engineering experience, including hands-on Salesforce Platform Engineering in production
• Proven experience defining and enforcing branching strategies, code review standards, and release processes for Salesforce orgs
• Strong understanding of Apex and LWC testing frameworks, including how to drive test coverage, fast deployments, and reliability at scale
• Experience managing Salesforce sandboxes or scratch orgs, including refresh strategy and seeding with realistic test data
• Familiarity with feature flag patterns and progressive delivery on Salesforce
• Experience implementing observability — logging, monitoring, error tracking — for Salesforce or comparable platforms
• Strong understanding of Salesforce best practices including governor limits, bulkification, and design patterns
• Strong communication skills with the ability to bring a team along on new standards and practices
• Curiosity about AI-assisted development and how to make a SF codebase a great place for those workflows
• Willingness to use AI to amplify your skills and strengthen your work — demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Salesforce engineering experience, including hands-on Salesforce Platform Engineering in production
• Proven experience defining and enforcing branching strategies, code review standards, and release processes for Salesforce orgs
• Strong understanding of Apex and LWC testing frameworks, including how to drive test coverage, fast deployments, and reliability at scale
• Experience managing Salesforce sandboxes or scratch orgs, including refresh strategy and seeding with realistic test data
• Familiarity with feature flag patterns and progressive delivery on Salesforce
• Experience implementing observability — logging, monitoring, error tracking — for Salesforce or comparable platforms
• Strong understanding of Salesforce best practices including governor limits, bulkification, and design patterns
• Strong communication skills with the ability to bring a team along on new standards and practices
• Curiosity about AI-assisted development and how to make a SF codebase a great place for those workflows
• Willingness to use AI to amplify your skills and strengthen your work — demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

Skills

• Deep, hands-on Salesforce Platform Engineering experience
• Understanding of the quirks of the SF platform and how it diverges from traditional software platform work
• Experience with Gearset, Salesforce DX, and Git-based deployment workflows
• Strong understanding of Apex and LWC testing frameworks, including how to drive test coverage, fast deployments, and reliability at scale
• Experience managing Salesforce sandboxes or scratch orgs, including refresh strategy and seeding with realistic test data
• Familiarity with feature flag patterns and progressive delivery on Salesforce
• Experience implementing observability — logging, monitoring, alerting — for Salesforce or comparable platforms
• Strong understanding of Salesforce best practices including governor limits, bulkification, and design patterns
• Strong communication skills with the ability to bring a team along on new standards and practices
• Curiosity about AI-assisted development and how to make a SF codebase a great place for those workflows
• Willingness to use AI to amplify your skills and strengthen your work — demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

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 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

Pay

Industry-competitive salary and equity

Schedule

Full-time