Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Resilience

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. The Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Resilience will build and operate systems that ensure reliability and compliance, particularly in FedRAMP environments, while collaborating with product teams to improve operational readiness and resilience.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate the systems that power Vanta’s FedRAMP environments, including automated release, vulnerability remediation, and evidence generation pipelines that meet strict compliance timelines
• Design and maintain Vanta’s vulnerability management platform, automating detection, remediation, and compliance reporting across both FedRAMP and non-FedRAMP environments
• Define and evolve Vanta’s production reliability framework, including SLOs, incident response patterns, observability standards, service catalog, metrics dashboards, and the Vanta SLA definition
• Improve incident response workflows and systems for faster recovery
• Engineer reliability improvements for CI and deploy workflows, reducing production friction and operational load, while maintaining deployment velocity
• Collaborate with product teams to embed reliability best practices, guiding operational readiness reviews and helping teams design for resilience
• Lead design and improvement of datacenter and environment build-outs for future FedRAMP levels and regional expansion
• Identify and solve complex scalability and performance challenges, particularly related to service reliability and data throughput
• 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 have experience operating services in multiple environments requiring strict compliance including FedRAMP
• You've been the technical lead in successfully driving large scale reliability initiatives across an entire product engineering organization
• You've played technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams
• You have experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments
• You care deeply about empowering other teams to build highly resilient and scalable production services
• You're thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when creating highly available infrastructure/services
• 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