Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Platform

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. 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Frontend Platform team. This team’s mission is to build tooling for Vanta’s engineers to easily ship and maintain quality and performant frontend experiences that are resilient to changing business needs. By focusing on fast build speeds, reliable testing, robust performance monitoring, and solid modularity in our codebase, this team helps lay the foundation for all engineers to contribute better code, faster.

Our frontend infrastructure and tooling need to stay ahead of exponential growth in our customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to provide a strong foundation for our frontend stack and enable our infrastructure to scale with our business. You will also drive complex projects across our technical stack and mentor our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth.

With a frontend focus, you will tackle challenging and highly impactful frontend and full-stack challenges that have company-wide impact. You and your team 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 build system, integrating accessibility tooling, improving application performance, and modularizing our frontend libraries and applications.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

What you’ll do as a Frontend Platform Engineer at Vanta:

• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale

• Evolve our frontend build system: bundlers, static analysis, caching, package management, and monorepo tooling

• Develop and scale our frontend testing strategy (unit, integration, visual regression, and E2E)

• Maintain and evolve GraphQL tooling: code patterns, developer tooling, scalability, and reliability

• Improve web performance and observability: set SLOs, implement monitoring and alerting, and drive remediation

• Plan and run modernization and migration initiatives leveraging codemods and AI/LLM tooling

• 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:

• Have experience building and maintaining software services and infrastructure platforms

• Have a deep understanding of TypeScript and React

• Have a deep understanding of writing and testing performant web client code

• Have experience scaling platform systems

• Have experience writing codemods and migration automations

• Demonstrate empathy for the developer experience (DX) and have a strong product sense for developer tooling

• 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

Things that may allow you to standout:

• Experience designing and operating monorepo build systems at scale (e.g., Bazel, nx, turbo)

• Experience contributing to native build tooling in Rust or Go

• Deep understanding of GraphQL tooling and infrastructure

What you can expect as a Vanta’n:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans

• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness stipend

• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend

• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office

• Family planning benefits

• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting

• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time

• 11 company-paid holidays

• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. 

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.