Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity

What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team at Vanta:

As Vanta expands its agentic capabilities across surfaces like MCP, CLI, and the Vanta Agent, the Identity team is at the center of a new set of problems: defining what it means for an agent to act as a user's proxy, enforcing consistent permission checks across every invocation surface, and building an attribution model that makes agent-assisted actions auditable and trustworthy. You'll help design the identity primitives that make autonomous agent behavior safe and governable at scale.

You will also:

• 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

How to be successful in this role:

• 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
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

What you can expect as a Vanta'n:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
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