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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** Vanta Incorporated - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $260,000.0 - $306,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Document-Oriented Databases, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Node.Js, Operational Databases, Redis, TypeScript, Management of Software Versions, System Availability, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vanta/87d75493-1d6e-490e-b5ac-d807f5fb5621 ## About the Role * Proven track record leading platform migration initiatives (v1*v2 architecture transitions) while maintaining backward compatibility and system availability * Strong command of streaming and queuing infrastructure (Kafka or equivalent), including partitioning strategy, consumer group semantics, redelivery, and idempotency. * Deep industry experience in distributed systems and data pipeline engineering, with demonstrated experience designing and operating systems at enterprise scale (terabyte-scale ingestion, high-throughput event processing) * Fluency in both relational and document data modeling at scale (Postgres and MongoDB), including query planning, connection pooling, and online schema change on large, continuously written tables. * Experience collaborating with engineering leadership to define multi-quarter technical roadmaps and drive them through to delivery * Solid AWS fundamentals and comfort operating in TypeScript and Node. * Able to articulate complex systems tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences and bring cross-functional partners along on long-horizon technical decisions * Open to using AI to amplify your skills and strengthen your work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact. ## Description * Lead the migration of Vanta's resource data model from a Mongo-centric solution to a schema-aware Postgres-backed solution and running both generations in parallel without breaking a customer integration. * Drive solutions across teams that you do not own but are dependent on the platform built by your team. * Design for correctness under eventual consistency with idempotent session handling, conditional writes that survive out-of-order delivery, reconciliation rather than strict cross-service validation, and explicitly backpressure instead of implicit database limits. * Design and evolve Vanta's data ingestion and pipeline architecture, ensuring reliable, high-throughput processing of terabyte-scale data streams across distributed systems * Take our Query API from internal use to a production platform with schema versioning, joins and exports, per-tenant isolation, and predictable latency under load. * Build data infrastructure where correctness is externally auditable as the evidence Vanta produces has to hold up in front of an auditor. * Diagnose the failures that only appear at production data shapes and can include hot partitions, unbounded fan-out, and online rewrites of continuously-written tables. * Set architectural direction for streaming infrastructure (Kafka and event queuing), caching layers (Redis), and persistent storage (Postgres, MongoDB) across the Foundations stack * Mentor senior engineers across the team, raising the technical bar through design reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on contributions to the most complex systems challenges * Champion engineering excellence in reliability, observability, and operational hygiene across the data infrastructure that powers Vanta's core product * Leverage AI tools and systems to accelerate your own work and explore how they can improve the systems you build ## Related Videos - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [40 Minutes to Build a Serverless COVID-19 REST and GraphQL APIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/208-40-minutes-to-build-a-serverless-covid-19-rest-and-graphql-apis) - [Stop using Node.js like in 2020! 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