Staff Software Engineer, Foundations - CAN
Full-time
Vanta
Responsibilities
- Lead the migration of the resource data model from MongoDB to a schema-aware PostgreSQL platform while maintaining backward compatibility and customer integrations.
- Design and evolve high-throughput ingestion and processing pipelines for terabyte-scale distributed data streams.
- Build correctness-focused systems using idempotency, conditional writes, reconciliation, backpressure, and eventual-consistency patterns.
- Productionize the Query API with schema versioning, joins, exports, per-tenant isolation, and predictable latency.
- Set architectural direction for Kafka, event queuing, Redis caching, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB storage across the Foundations platform.
- Diagnose production failures involving hot partitions, unbounded fan-out, and online rewrites of continuously written tables.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives and multi-quarter roadmaps while mentoring senior engineers through design reviews and hands-on contributions.
- Champion reliability, observability, operational hygiene, and responsible use of AI tools.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading platform migrations between major architecture versions while maintaining backward compatibility and availability.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, streaming, queuing infrastructure, and enterprise-scale data pipeline engineering.
- Strong knowledge of Kafka concepts including partitioning, consumer groups, redelivery, and idempotency, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience modeling and operating relational and document databases at scale, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB query planning, connection pooling, and online schema changes.
- Experience collaborating with engineering leadership to define and deliver multi-quarter technical roadmaps.
- Solid AWS fundamentals and professional experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
- Ability to communicate complex systems tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence cross-functional partners.
- Curiosity and sound judgment in applying AI to improve engineering efficiency and impact.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity are offered.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits are fully covered, including dependent coverage.
- Pension contribution is provided.
- The role includes 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Health and wellness, remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipends are provided.
- Flexible work hours and location are available, with remote work supported.
- Employees receive 21 vacation days, 80 hours of sick leave, and 11 company-paid holidays.
- The company offers virtual team-building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events.
- Vanta has offices in San Francisco, New York City, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.
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