# Staff Software Engineer, Foundations Data Platform

Hiring organization: [Vanta](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/vanta)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/746af35e-3212-4a04-9bf5-a5ece0566449

Listed on Vanta's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Staff
- Location: Remote U.S.
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 260000 – 306000 USD per year

## Summary

Vanta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the migration of its compliance data platform from MongoDB to a modern Kafka-Postgres-S3 architecture, handling massive scale and correctness requirements for security audits. The role suits someone with deep distributed systems expertise who enjoys owning complex platform transitions and mentoring senior engineers.

_Our summary, not Vanta's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, MongoDB, Node.js, Redis, TypeScript

## Required

- Led platform migration initiatives maintaining backward compatibility
- Streaming and queuing infrastructure expertise (Kafka or equivalent)
- Distributed systems and data pipeline engineering at enterprise scale
- Relational and document data modeling at scale
- Collaborated with engineering leadership on multi-quarter technical roadmaps
- AWS fundamentals
- TypeScript and Node.js proficiency
- Ability to articulate complex systems tradeoffs to diverse audiences

## Nice to have

- Open to using AI to amplify skills
- Demonstrated curiosity and willingness to learn

Apply on Vanta's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vanta/87d75493-1d6e-490e-b5ac-d807f5fb5621/application