Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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 Developer Experience team to build and enhance the tools that engineers use daily, enabling faster and more reliable product development.

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