Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

Vanta helps businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring and verification. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Product Platform organization to build scalable shared systems, libraries, APIs, and services that support product engineering teams. The role also involves driving cross-team architecture, engineering standards, documentation, and developer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build high-quality, scalable systems and shared libraries that multiple engineering teams depend on - whether that's shared customer-facing components (Applications Primitives) or internal abstractions (Libraries & Foundations)
• Partner deeply with product engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into clean, well-documented APIs and services
• Drive technical decisions and influence architecture across team boundaries, with a focus on developer experience and platform scalability
• Define and uphold engineering standards for shared components, ensuring consistency, performance, and security across the systems you own
• Participate actively in code review, design discussions, and technical planning - raising the engineering quality bar for your team and beyond
• Write and maintain thorough documentation for the systems and libraries you build, enabling engineers across the org to use and contribute to them
• Contribute to building Vanta's engineering culture as we scale

Requirements:

• Industry experience in backend or fullstack software engineering, with a focus on platform, shared infrastructure, or developer-facing systems
• Experience building shared APIs, services, or platform components used by multiple engineering teams - a platform mindset is critical
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or message queue systems (Kafka, SQS, pub/sub)
• Excellent communication skills - able to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design stakeholders, and to clearly articulate technical trade-offs
• Track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code with sound judgment on architectural decisions
• 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