Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

How does the team impact the business?

We help teams deliver AI capabilities faster, improve customer outcomes, and manage reliability, latency, and cost across Vanta’s AI products.

What gaps will this hire fill?

This hire will expand our ability to turn applied AI experiments into reliable, reusable platform capabilities. They will combine hands-on implementation with evaluation, operational ownership, and close product-team partnership.

What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Vanta

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

How to be successful in this role

• 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 and designing for 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 to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.

What you can expect as a Vanta’n

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

Pay and benefits

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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