Key skills
AWS FargateAWS ECSAWS servicesContainer orchestrationDistributed systemsInfrastructure designMonitoring and alerting systemsDatabase maintenanceService-to-service authenticationSecrets managementApplication security primitivesInfrastructure hardeningPerformance optimizationReliability engineeringTypeScriptReactNode.jsMongoDBGithub ActionsAIAWSECSFargateLeadership
About this role
Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable infrastructure that supports rapid growth, while implementing core security infrastructure and collaborating with security engineering to ensure compliance and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build scalable infrastructure to support rapid growth in data volume, service usage, and engineering velocity
- Lead projects across our cloud infrastructure, including container orchestration (e.g., AWS Fargate, ECS), monitoring and alerting systems, networking, and database maintenance
- Implement and maintain core security infrastructure and controls including, service-to-service authentication, secrets management, application security primitives (e.g., rate-limiting, encryption libraries, etc.), and infrastructure hardening
- Identify and solve complex scalability and performance challenges, particularly related to service reliability and data throughput
- Partner closely with Security Engineering to implement infrastructure that supports best-in-class security and compliance practices
- Drive infrastructure design reviews and provide technical guidance on architectural decisions and trade-offs
- 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 Infrastructure or platform teams
- You have experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments
- You care deeply about performance and reliability
- You're thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when creating new infrastructure
- 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