Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Vanta
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 179,000 - 211,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Mentoring","Problem-solving"]

Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team responsible for designing scalable authentication and authorization foundations, mentoring engineers, and driving complex projects across the tech stack to support enterprise growth while prioritizing security, data modeling, and performance.

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Vanta
Vanta
1 year ago

Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team responsible for designing scalable authentication and authorization foundations, mentoring engineers, and driving complex projects across the tech stack to support enterprise growth while prioritizing security, data modeling, and performance.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •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

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 179,000 - 211,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Medical Benefits401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of backend development experience
  • •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 complex relationships
  • •Experience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and security
Experience:8+ yearsSecurityEnterprise softwareSaaS
Skills:CommunicationMentoringProblem-solving
Tech Stack:OIDCSAMLRBACPolicy-based access controlSSO

Company Brief

Vanta
Provides automated security and compliance software that helps companies achieve and maintain SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other security certifications by continuously monitoring systems, controls, and evidence.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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