Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience
AI summary of the role
Senior Software Engineer on Vanta's Developer Experience team, responsible for building and scaling the internal tools and infrastructure that all product engineers use to develop, test, and deploy code.
What you’ll do
- Set direction for critical dev infrastructure to stay ahead of rapid growth
- Design and build CI and build systems for fast, confident development and shipping
- Improve efficiency and reliability of deployment workflows including hotfixes, rollbacks, and incident mitigation
- Lead development of tools that accelerate feedback loops from typechecking to deploying changes
What you’ll bring
- Technical leadership roles on DevEx or platform teams
- Experience with build systems, CI/CD, and scaling developer workflows in fast-growing environments
- Deep care for performance, reliability, and usability in daily-used tools
- Thoughtful about trade-offs with good product sense for internal tools
Technologies
TypeScript · React · Node.js · MongoDB · GitHub Actions · AWS Fargate · ECS · CI/CD · build systems · developer tooling
About Vanta
Trust management platform that helps companies automate compliance, continuously monitor security programs, manage vendor risk, streamline security questionnaires, and prove trust to customers through self-serve trust workflows.
Series D · 500–1000 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 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
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 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. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many hav [... source excerpt omitted ...] nd 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 produ
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