Staff Software Engineer, Foundations

What this role involves

Vanta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the re-platforming of their data layer from MongoDB to Postgres, ensuring correctness and no data loss during migration. The role involves designing data ingestion pipelines, evolving the Query API, and mentoring senior engineers. The position requires deep experience with distributed systems, streaming infrastructure, and platform migrations.

Skills this posting asks for

• kafka
• postgres
• mongodb
• redis
• s3
• distributed systems
• data pipeline
• streaming
• event queuing
• caching
• schema design
• api design
• idempotency
• eventual consistency
• multi-tenancy
• terraform
• aws
• gcp
• azure
• go
• python
• java
• sql
• kubernetes

Requirements

• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

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, m…