Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease.

About the job:

Vanta’s Developer Experience team builds the tools engineers use every day to bring ideas to production rapidly and reliably. You’ll empower other Vanta engineers to leverage cutting-edge technologies and best practices to make Vanta more performant and scalable on a platform level. Example projects include modernizing our CI/CD pipelines, introducing new test frameworks, launching AI-powered dev tools, and scaling developer environments to support a growing engineering team.

This team has a wide breadth of impact across all of product engineering. The work we do compounds in value by making it easier for engineers to diagnose and solve bugs, streamline workflows, and ship value to our customers quickly and safely.

Vanta engineers design and develop new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, Github Actions, and various AWS services such as Fargate and ECS.

You will:

• Set direction for critical dev infrastructure, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth

• Design and build CI and build systems that ensure Vanta engineers can develop and ship robust products quickly and confidently

• Improve the efficiency and reliability of our deployment workflows, including tools for hotfixes, rollbacks, and incident mitigation

• Lead development of tools that accelerate feedback loops — from typechecking and linting to running tests and deploying changes

• Build and maintain scalable development environments, test infrastructure, and core dev tooling

• Introduce and scale AI-enhanced developer tools that help engineers move faster, write better code, and reduce toil

• Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it

• Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow

How to be successful in this role:

• You’ve played technical leadership roles on DevEx or platform teams

• You have experience with build systems, CI/CD, and scaling developer workflows in fast-growing environments

• You care deeply about performance, reliability, and usability, especially in tools used daily by engineers

• You’re thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when building internal tools