Growth trajectory
Grow from owning a platform capability end to end to leading broader technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and shaping capabilities adopted across teams.
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What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Vanta
Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.
Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows, including checkpointing, retries, human-in-the-loop steps, and recovery from partial failures.
Evolve our agent harness, the runtime for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration.
Develop evaluation and debugging tools that turn production failures into measurable improvements and regression coverage.
Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery to support accurate, useful AI behavior.
Own platform capabilities through rollout and operation, including reliability, observability, performance, and secure handling of customer data.
Partner with product teams to prototype solutions, identify common needs, and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities.
How to be successful in this role
Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms.
Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes.
Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms and designing for idempotency, retries, and long-running state.
Familiarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs.
Practical evaluation experience: defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring whether changes improve outcomes.
Product judgment: connecting platform decisions to developer needs and customer outcomes.
Ownership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment.
Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.
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 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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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.
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