Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Resilience

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their new Enterprise Resilience team, responsible for building and operating robust distributed systems, defining reliability frameworks, and improving incident response workflows.

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:

• Experience operating services in multiple environments requiring strict compliance including FedRAMP
• Technical lead in successfully driving large scale reliability initiatives across an entire product engineering organization
• Played technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams
• Experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments
• Care deeply about empowering other teams to build highly resilient and scalable production services
• 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