Senior Software Engineer – Infrastructure and Security
Vanta
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloud
About the role
- Design and build scalable infrastructure to support rapid growth in data volume, service usage, and engineering velocity
- Lead projects across our cloud infrastructure, including container orchestration (e.g., AWS Fargate, ECS), monitoring and alerting systems, networking, and database maintenance
- Implement and maintain core security infrastructure and controls including, service-to-service authentication, secrets management, application security primitives (e.g., rate-limiting, encryption libraries, etc.), and infrastructure hardening
- Identify and solve complex scalability and performance challenges, particularly related to service reliability and data throughput
- Partner closely with Security Engineering to implement infrastructure that supports best-in-class security and compliance practices
- Drive infrastructure design reviews and provide technical guidance on architectural decisions and trade-offs
- 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
Requirements
- You’ve played technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams
- You have experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments
- You care deeply about performance and reliability
- You’re thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when creating new infrastructure
Benefits
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
- Pension contribution
- 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace stipend
- Flexible work hours and location
- 21 days of PTO and 80 hours of sick leave
- 8 to 11 company paid holidays (dependent on your territory of residence)
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cloud infrastructurecontainer orchestrationAWS FargateECSmonitoring systemsalerting systemsdatabase maintenancesecurity infrastructureencryption librariesinfrastructure hardening
Soft skills
technical leadershipthoughtfulness about trade-offsgood product sensecollaborationimpact-driven mindset