Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Security

Vanta · Enterprise · U.S. · Remote · Software Engineering

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure and Security team at Vanta. The primary focus is on building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, cloud services, and security primitives to support Vanta's core systems and rapid growth. Responsibilities include designing and implementing distributed systems, container orchestration, monitoring, networking, and security controls. The role emphasizes technical leadership, experience with AWS and scaling platforms, and a focus on performance and reliability. While not directly building AI models, the role mentions openness to using AI tools to enhance work.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build scalable infrastructure to support rapid growth in data volume, service usage, and engineering velocity
  2. Lead projects across our cloud infrastructure, including container orchestration (e.g., AWS Fargate, ECS), monitoring and alerting systems, networking, and database maintenance
  3. 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
  4. Identify and solve complex scalability and performance challenges, particularly related to service reliability and data throughput
  5. Partner closely with Security Engineering to implement infrastructure that supports best-in-class security and compliance practices

Skills

Required

  • technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams
  • experience with infrastructure
  • AWS services
  • scaling platforms in fast-growing environments
  • performance
  • reliability
  • thoughtful about trade-offs
  • product sense

Nice to have

  • prior security experience

What the JD emphasized

  • security
  • infrastructure
  • scalability
  • performance
  • reliability