Top Benefits
Medical, dental, vision coverage for employees and dependents.
Remote-first or hybrid work options.
Paid parental leave for all parents.
About the role
Who you are
- Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
- Strong knowledge of authentication protocols (OIDC, SAML) and identity federation concepts (SSO), or authorization frameworks (RBAC, policy-based access control)
- Experience building platform services that scale across multiple teams
- Strong data modeling skills for systems with complex relationships
- Experience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and security
- Success with complex technical migrations that maintain system stability
- Security-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practices
- Have led technical projects spanning months
- Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with other engineers
- Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow
What the job involves
- The Identity team at Vanta is building the critical foundation that powers our entire security platform as we scale to serve enterprise customers
- Our team focuses on two core pillars: authentication systems that provide secure access to our platform, and authorization frameworks that enable fine-grained permission controls
- As we expand upmarket, we're facing interesting challenges that require thoughtful evolution of our identity infrastructure
- In this role, you'll help design composable and extensible systems for complex user data modeling, support our evolution toward policy-based authorization, and establish clean interface contracts for identity services
- You'll tackle complex challenges at the intersection of security, scalability, and user experience, while influencing how multiple engineering teams integrate with our identity platform
- Your work will be fundamental to Vanta's success with enterprise customers, where robust identity management is essential to earning trust with sensitive data
- Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
- Collaborate with Security to ensure Vanta's platform implements best practices for customer data
- Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
- Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization
Benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
About Vanta
Software Development
501-1000
Vanta is the leading trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Thousands of companies including Atlassian, Omni Hotels, Quora, and ZoomInfo rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.
Top Benefits
Medical, dental, vision coverage for employees and dependents.
Remote-first or hybrid work options.
Paid parental leave for all parents.
About the role
Who you are
- Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
- Strong knowledge of authentication protocols (OIDC, SAML) and identity federation concepts (SSO), or authorization frameworks (RBAC, policy-based access control)
- Experience building platform services that scale across multiple teams
- Strong data modeling skills for systems with complex relationships
- Experience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and security
- Success with complex technical migrations that maintain system stability
- Security-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practices
- Have led technical projects spanning months
- Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with other engineers
- Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow
What the job involves
- The Identity team at Vanta is building the critical foundation that powers our entire security platform as we scale to serve enterprise customers
- Our team focuses on two core pillars: authentication systems that provide secure access to our platform, and authorization frameworks that enable fine-grained permission controls
- As we expand upmarket, we're facing interesting challenges that require thoughtful evolution of our identity infrastructure
- In this role, you'll help design composable and extensible systems for complex user data modeling, support our evolution toward policy-based authorization, and establish clean interface contracts for identity services
- You'll tackle complex challenges at the intersection of security, scalability, and user experience, while influencing how multiple engineering teams integrate with our identity platform
- Your work will be fundamental to Vanta's success with enterprise customers, where robust identity management is essential to earning trust with sensitive data
- Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
- Collaborate with Security to ensure Vanta's platform implements best practices for customer data
- Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
- Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization
Benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
About Vanta
Software Development
501-1000
Vanta is the leading trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Thousands of companies including Atlassian, Omni Hotels, Quora, and ZoomInfo rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.