Senior Backend Engineer building Vanta’s trust automation integrations platform. Designing scalable APIs, authentication, and data-ingestion primitives for over 400 integrations.
Responsibilities
Set technical strategy and direction for critical platform surface areas
Design and evolve APIs, primitives, and self-service golden paths for internal teams, partners, and customers
Own authentication, data-ingestion, and schema-evolution primitives for secure, reliable integrations
Build secure, documented, scalable backend services and developer tooling, including CI/CD
Drive performance, operational excellence, and SDLC best practices
Make and defend buy-vs-build and one-way-door decisions
Mentor and uplevel teammates and establish standardized design patterns
Build with TypeScript, React, and Node.js and use AI tools to accelerate development and workflows
Develop the Integration Platform powering Vanta’s trust automation ecosystem and over 400 integrations
Requirements
8+ years of backend development building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant systems
Deep expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication protocols (OAuth, API keys, JWT), and security best practices
Experience evolving core APIs, SDKs, and platform abstractions
Experience building resilient data ingestion from external systems
Experience with integrations across cloud providers, HRIS platforms, identity providers, and code repositories
Knowledge of rate limiting, retries, idempotency, webhooks, and handling schema drift
Experience designing for scale, reliability, and failure modes
Experience leading teams and complex projects and influencing decisions across the organization
Experience building sample integrations, POCs, AI Skills, documentation, and workshops
Open to using AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
Bonus: startup or bias-for-action environments, greenfield work, multi-region or Gov deployments, and prior experience in security or compliance products
Benefits
Industry-competitive salary and equity
100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
Pension contribution
16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
Health & wellness stipend
Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
Flexible work hours and location
21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave
11 company-paid holidays
Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events
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