Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 8 years

📍 Location: United States

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: Vanta👥 501-1000💰 $150,000,000 Series C 8 months agoInternet Artificial Intelligence (AI)Compliance Cyber Security Software

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 8 years

🪄 Skills: Backend DevelopmentLeadershipPostgreSQLSQLAlgorithmsData StructuresCommunication SkillsCollaborationCI/CDProblem SolvingRESTful APIsMentoringJSONData modelingSoftware Engineering

Requirements:

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

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
Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization

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