ApplyBackend 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 agoInternetArtificial Intelligence (AI)ComplianceCyber SecuritySoftware
🗣️ 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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