Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

Location: Remote U.S.

Salary: $224K–$263K base salary annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

Vanta builds a trust management platform that helps businesses continuously monitor, improve, and prove their security.

What you will do

• Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.
• Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running workflows, including checkpointing, retries, human-in-the-loop steps, and recovery from partial failures.
• Evolve the agent harness for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration.
• Develop evaluation and debugging tools that convert production failures into measurable improvements and regression coverage.
• Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery while owning platform reliability, observability, performance, and secure customer-data handling.
• Partner with product teams to prototype solutions, identify shared needs, and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms.
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes.
• Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms, including idempotency, retries, and long-running state.
• Familiarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs.
• Practical evaluation experience: defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring whether changes improve outcomes.
• Product judgment connecting platform decisions to developer needs and customer outcomes.
• Ownership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment.
• Uses AI in day-to-day work, builds fluency through experimentation, and applies sound judgment to maintain a high quality bar for AI-assisted work.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time role for U.S.-based employees.
• Industry-competitive salary, equity, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, and a matching 401(k) with immediate vesting.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave, flexible PTO, 80 hours of sick time, and 11 company-paid holidays.
• Health and wellness, remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipends; family planning and commuter benefits for team members reporting to the San Francisco and New York offices.
• Virtual team building, lunch and learns, and company-wide events.
• Company offices are located in San Francisco, New York, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.

Hiring process

• Referred candidates must contact their referrer to apply on their behalf.