Senior Software Engineer – Infrastructure and Security
Vanta
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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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!
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud infrastructurecontainer orchestrationAWS FargateECSmonitoring systemsalerting systemsdatabase maintenancesecurity infrastructureencryption librariesinfrastructure hardening
Soft Skills
technical leadershipthoughtfulness about trade-offsgood product sensecollaborationimpact-driven mindset