Backend Senior Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

Company: Vanta
Location: San Diego
Posted on: January 11, 2026

Job Description:

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. Vanta’s product monitors the security posture for thousands of companies, pulling tens of millions of API calls of data per day, pushing information from hundreds of thousands of laptop agents, and running tests against that data continuously to identify potential security threats. Our infrastructure and tooling need to stay ahead of exponential growth in our customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to provide a strong foundation for our infrastructure to scale with our business. You will also drive complex projects across our technical stack and mentor our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer on the Monetization Platform team at Vanta: The Monetization Platform team at Vanta is building an enterprise-grade revenue and entitlement platform to support our rapid upmarket expansion. These systems form the critical foundation for how customers purchase, access, and manage Vantas products. Were solving complex technical challenges including data modeling for entitlements, ensuring transactional consistency across integrated financial systems, designing robust API contracts, and implementing metering infrastructure for usage-based billing. As we scale to serve larger enterprises, we face unique engineering challenges in designing flexible systems that can support complex organizational structures, diverse purchasing patterns, and sophisticated partner ecosystems. In this role, youll provide technical leadership to help architect solutions that seamlessly connect our customer-facing platform with our financial operations, enabling everything from streamlined enterprise procurement to partner-driven distribution models. Your work will establish reliable data flows across our business systems, reduce manual operations, and create scalable infrastructure that supports new commercial models. Youll evaluate integration approaches with financial platforms, build the connective tissue between systems, and ensure data consistency throughout our ecosystem. This role offers the unique opportunity to build systems that directly impact Vantas growth trajectory while solving technically interesting distributed systems problems at the intersection of product, finance, and sales. You will also: • Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale • Provide technical direction for key monetization initiatives • Collaborate with GTM and Finance teams to ensure alignment between engineering systems and business needs • Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs • Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members • Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation • Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization How to be successful in this role: • Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development • Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems • Strong background integrating with external APIs and services • Experience building platform services used by multiple teams • Strong data modeling skills for systems requiring transactional consistency • Knowledge of billing systems, payment processing, or subscription management • Understanding of financial data security and integrity requirements • Have led meaningful technical projects from concept to completion • Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done • Ability to collaborate effectively with partners in Finance and Sales • Interest in contributing to Vantas engineering culture as we grow What you can expect as a Vantan: • Industry-competitive compensation • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage • 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents • Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends • Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours and location • Open PTO policy • 11 paid holidays in the US • Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, and Sydney

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