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$260,000 – $306,000
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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