Senior Frontend Platform Engineer at Vanta

Role Overview

At Vanta, we're dedicated to helping businesses build and prove trust. Our mission revolves around continuous security monitoring and verification, empowering companies to enhance their security practices and demonstrate them with ease. We're a team of kind and talented individuals, some with prior security experience, but many who have found success at Vanta without it.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Frontend Platform Engineer to join our Frontend Platform team. This team is responsible for developing tooling that enables Vanta's engineers to efficiently ship and maintain high-quality, performant frontend experiences that adapt to evolving business needs. By prioritizing fast build speeds, reliable testing, robust performance monitoring, and a well-structured codebase, this team provides the essential foundation for all engineers to contribute better code, faster.

Our frontend infrastructure must keep pace with the exponential growth of our customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta, you'll play a crucial role in setting the technical direction for our frontend stack, ensuring our infrastructure scales effectively with our business. You will lead complex projects across our technical landscape and mentor our talented engineering team. Your expertise will be instrumental in enabling and accelerating Vanta’s growth.

With a primary focus on the frontend, you'll tackle challenging and impactful frontend and full-stack challenges that have company-wide implications. You and your team will empower other Vanta engineers to leverage cutting-edge technologies and best practices to enhance Vanta's performance and scalability at the platform level. Example projects encompass modernizing our build system, integrating accessibility tooling, improving application performance, and modularizing our frontend libraries and applications.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

A Day in the Life

As a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, your day will be varied and impactful. Here's a glimpse of what you might encounter:

• Morning: Start with a team stand-up to discuss progress, roadblocks, and priorities. Dive into code reviews, providing constructive feedback to your peers.
• Mid-day: Work on a project to optimize our frontend build process using tools like Webpack or Parcel. Research and experiment with new caching strategies to improve build times.
• Afternoon: Collaborate with the GraphQL team to improve the performance and scalability of our data fetching layer. Implement monitoring and alerting for key frontend metrics, such as page load times and error rates.
• Late Afternoon: Participate in a planning session for a new platform initiative, such as migrating to a new version of React or adopting a new monorepo tool.

Why Remote U.S.?

Vanta embraces remote work, recognizing the value of diverse perspectives and work styles. Being a remote Senior Frontend Platform Engineer in the U.S. offers you:

• Flexibility: Design your workday to fit your lifestyle and be most productive.
• Work-life balance: Eliminate commute times and create more time for personal pursuits.
• Access to talent: Work with a diverse team of talented engineers across the U.S.
• Impact: Contribute to a company that values its employees and makes a real difference in the security landscape.

Career Path

At Vanta, we invest in your growth. The Senior Frontend Platform Engineer role offers opportunities to advance into roles such as:

• Staff Engineer: Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams and contribute to the overall architectural vision.
• Principal Engineer: Drive innovation and technical excellence within the Frontend Platform team and mentor other engineers.
• Engineering Manager: Lead and manage a team of Frontend Platform Engineers, providing guidance and support for their professional development.

Salary & Benefits

Vanta offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

• Salary: The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $220,000 per year, depending on experience and location.
• Equity: You will receive stock options in Vanta, aligning your interests with the company's success.
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid Time Off: Unlimited paid time off to recharge and pursue personal interests.
• Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave for new parents.
• 401(k): 401(k) plan with company match to help you save for retirement.
• Professional Development: A budget for professional development to attend conferences, take courses, and learn new skills.

Security Culture

Security is at the core of everything we do at Vanta. We foster a security-conscious culture where everyone is responsible for protecting our data and systems. We provide regular security training and awareness programs to ensure our employees are equipped to identify and mitigate potential threats.

How to Apply

If you are a passionate and experienced Frontend Platform Engineer who is excited about building scalable and reliable frontend infrastructure, we encourage you to apply! Please submit your resume and cover letter through our online application portal. We look forward to hearing from you!

FAQ

1. What is Vanta's mission?

   Vanta's mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust by providing continuous security monitoring and verification solutions.

2. What does the Frontend Platform team do?

   The Frontend Platform team builds tooling that empowers Vanta's engineers to efficiently ship and maintain high-quality, performant frontend experiences.

3. What technologies does the Frontend Platform team use?

   The team uses a variety of technologies, including TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Webpack, Parcel, and various testing frameworks.

4. What are the key responsibilities of a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer at Vanta?

   Key responsibilities include leading complex projects, evolving our frontend build system, developing and scaling our testing strategy, and improving web performance and observability.

5. What skills are required to be successful in this role?

   Required skills include experience building and maintaining software services and infrastructure platforms, a deep understanding of TypeScript and React, and experience scaling platform systems.

6. What is the career path for a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer at Vanta?

   Potential career paths include Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, and Engineering Manager.

7. What benefits does Vanta offer?

   Vanta offers a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive health insurance, unlimited paid time off, and other benefits.

8. What is Vanta's security culture like?

   Vanta fosters a security-conscious culture where everyone is responsible for protecting our data and systems.

9. How do I apply for this position?

   You can apply for this position by submitting your resume and cover letter through our online application portal.

10. Does Vanta offer remote work options?

    Yes, this position is fully remote within the United States.