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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 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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