Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team, you will lead complex projects, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the implementation of best practices for customer data security while enabling the business to scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
• Collaborate with Security to ensure Vanta's platform implements best practices for customer data
• Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
• Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization

Requirements:

• Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
• Strong 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 teams
• Strong data modeling skills for systems with complex relationships
• Experience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and security
• Success with complex technical migrations that maintain system stability
• Security-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practices
• Have led technical projects spanning months
• Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done
• Experience mentoring and collaborating with other engineers
• Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow
• 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