Who you are

• Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
• Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems
• Strong background integrating with external APIs and services
• Experience building platform services used by multiple teams
• Strong data modeling skills for systems requiring transactional consistency
• Knowledge of billing systems, payment processing, or subscription management
• Understanding of financial data security and integrity requirements
• Have led meaningful technical projects from concept to completion
• Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done
• Ability to collaborate effectively with partners in Finance and Sales
• Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow

What the job involves

• Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale
• The Monetization Platform team at Vanta is building an enterprise-grade revenue and entitlement platform to support our rapid upmarket expansion
• These systems form the critical foundation for how customers purchase, access, and manage Vanta's products
• We're solving complex technical challenges including data modeling for entitlements, ensuring transactional consistency across integrated financial systems, designing robust API contracts, and implementing metering infrastructure for usage-based billing
• As we scale to serve larger enterprises, we face unique engineering challenges in designing flexible systems that can support complex organizational structures, diverse purchasing patterns, and sophisticated partner ecosystems
• In this role, you'll provide technical leadership to help architect solutions that seamlessly connect our customer-facing platform with our financial operations, enabling everything from streamlined enterprise procurement to partner-driven distribution models
• Your work will establish reliable data flows across our business systems, reduce manual operations, and create scalable infrastructure that supports new commercial models
• You'll evaluate integration approaches with financial platforms, build the connective tissue between systems, and ensure data consistency throughout our ecosystem
• This role offers the unique opportunity to build systems that directly impact Vanta's growth trajectory while solving technically interesting distributed systems problems at the intersection of product, finance, and sales
• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
• Provide technical direction for key monetization initiatives
• Collaborate with GTM and Finance teams to ensure alignment between engineering systems and business needs
• 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