Senior Software Engineer, Test Core

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own complex projects from problem definition and technical design through implementation, rollout, and operation.
• ▹Design and evolve the backend systems, APIs, and data models used to run Tests and process their results.
• ▹Improve the reliability, correctness, performance, and observability of the Tests runtime.
• ▹Investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and build durable solutions.
• ▹Simplify existing systems and improve the abstractions and interfaces that other engineers build on.
• ▹Collaborate with engineers across Vanta on problems that span multiple systems and team boundaries.
• ▹Give thoughtful feedback in design and code reviews, communicate technical trade-offs, and help other engineers make good decisions.
• ▹Mentor other engineers and contribute to the engineering culture of the team.

Requirements

• ▹Strong experience building and operating reliable, scalable backend systems in production.
• ▹A track record of independently delivering complex technical projects where the problem or solution was not always well defined.
• ▹Strong systems thinking and fundamentals in backend system design, APIs, and data modeling.
• ▹Strong debugging skills — able to reason about correctness, reliability, performance, and scalability across complex systems.
• ▹Ability to make effective technical tradeoffs and take ownership of systems in production.

About the company

Vanta's mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. Vanta believes security should be monitored and verified continuously, empowering companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta's product monitors the security posture of thousands of companies, pulling tens of millions of API calls of data per day and pushing information from hundreds of thousands of laptop agents, running continuous tests to identify potential security threats.