Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Vanta is a company focused on helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. The Senior Software Engineer in Developer Experience will lead the development of critical infrastructure, improve deployment workflows, and enhance developer tools to support the engineering team in delivering robust products efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Set direction for critical dev infrastructure, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth
• Design and build CI and build systems that ensure Vanta engineers can develop and ship robust products quickly and confidently
• Improve the efficiency and reliability of our deployment workflows, including tools for hotfixes, rollbacks, and incident mitigation
• Lead development of tools that accelerate feedback loops — from typechecking and linting to running tests and deploying changes
• Build and maintain scalable development environments, test infrastructure, and core dev tooling
• Introduce and scale AI-enhanced developer tools that help engineers move faster, write better code, and reduce toil
• 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

Requirements:

• You've played technical leadership roles on DevEx or platform teams
• You have experience with build systems, CI/CD, and scaling developer workflows in fast-growing environments
• You care deeply about performance, reliability, and usability, especially in tools used daily by engineers
• You're thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when building internal tools