Senior Backend Software Engineer, Integrations Platform

About the role

Vanta’s 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. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale.

The Integrations Platform team powers the world’s largest trust automation ecosystem, enabling any person or agent to build, connect, and automate trust seamlessly. We own Vanta’s integration ecosystem, which currently includes over 400 integrations across Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Identity Providers, Mobile Device Management (MDM), and Human Resources Information System (HRIS). We are focused on developing the Integration Platform, creating shared primitives for authentication, lifecycle, observability, and publishing to ensure all integrations are built on the same foundation. Our North Star is to eliminate the barrier to building integrations entirely, enabling anyone to create an integration in minutes using declarative, low-code, and no-code patterns, supercharged by AI Agents.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy and direction for critical platform surface areas, staying ahead of rapid growth.
• Design and evolve the APIs, primitives, and self-service golden paths that internal teams, partners, and customers build on.
• Own the authentication, data-ingestion, and schema-evolution primitives that keep integrations with external systems secure and reliable at scale.
• Build secure, well-documented, scalable backend services and developer tooling (including CI/CD) that propel engineering productivity.
• Drive performance, operational excellence, and SDLC best practices; make and defend buy-vs-build and one-way-door decisions.
• Act as a force multiplier: mentor and uplevel teammates, and set the design patterns the team standardizes on.
• Build with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, and use AI tools to accelerate development and workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend development building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Platform and API design: you've evolved core APIs, SDKs, and platform abstractions, with deep expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication protocols (OAuth, API keys, JWT), and security best practices.
• Data Integrations: you've built resilient data ingestion from external systems, including integrations with cloud providers, HRIS platforms, identity providers, and code repositories. You champion best practices such as rate limiting, retries and idempotency, webhooks, and handling schema drift.
• Systems thinking at scale: you design for scale, reliability, and failure modes. You look around corners and proactively identify and address risk.
• Technical leadership and cross-team influence: you've led teams and complex projects, and influenced decisions across the organization.
• Internal Enablement and Evangelism: you build sample integrations, POCs, AI Skills, documentation, and workshops to help internal engineering teams onboard quickly to the platform.
• Bonus: startup or bias-for-action environments, greenfield work, multi-region or Gov deployments, and prior experience in security or compliance products.
• Open to using AI to amplify skills and strengthen 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.

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.