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 engineers, and design systems that ensure secure access and fine-grained permission controls for Vanta's security platform.

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