Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity
Remote U.S.Full-TimeSenior
Salary195,000 - 229,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 8 years of industry experience
- Required Skills
- Backend DevelopmentArtificial IntelligenceMentoringData modelingDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 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
Responsibilities
- Define what it means for an agent to act as a user's proxy
- Enforce consistent permission checks across every invocation surface
- Build an attribution model that makes agent-assisted actions auditable and trustworthy
- Help design the identity primitives that make autonomous agent behavior safe and governable at scale
- 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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