About the job
At Vanta, we are dedicated to helping businesses cultivate and demonstrate trust by prioritizing security that is continuously monitored and verified. Our mission empowers companies to enhance their security practices and showcase their commitment effortlessly. Join our supportive and skilled team, where individuals from diverse backgrounds thrive—many have succeeded at Vanta without prior security experience.
About the Role:
As a key member of Vanta’s Infrastructure & Security team, you will play a vital role in building a robust platform that ensures the scalability, performance, and reliability of our core systems. With our rapidly expanding customer base, we require infrastructure that evolves alongside us, without sacrificing speed or developer efficiency. You'll engage in projects involving distributed systems, infrastructure components, and security upgrades, enabling our engineers to deliver dependable software at scale.
Your contributions will significantly impact product engineering across the board. Our initiatives simplify the process for engineers to identify bugs, develop features, and provide value to our clients swiftly and securely.
At Vanta, we harness modern frameworks and tools such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, GitHub Actions, and a variety of AWS services like Fargate and ECS to design and develop new product functionalities and infrastructure.
If you're excited about the intersection of infrastructure and security, we would love to connect with you.
To learn more about our team's work, visit our Vanta Engineering Blog.
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
Designing and constructing scalable infrastructure to facilitate rapid increases in data volume, service utilization, and engineering productivity.
Leading projects concerning our cloud infrastructure, encompassing container orchestration (e.g., AWS Fargate, ECS), monitoring and alerting systems, networking, and database upkeep.
Implementing and maintaining essential security infrastructures and controls, including service-to-service authentication, secrets management, application security features (e.g., rate limiting, encryption libraries), and infrastructure hardening.
Identifying and resolving intricate security challenges to bolster our systems.

