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Staff Software Engineer, Foundations - CAN in Canada

  • Remote

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.

Salary: Competitive

Vanta

Vanta is a trust management platform that automates compliance certification for standards like SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR, making it easier for organizations to maintain and demonstrate their security posture. Targeting businesses of all sizes, Vanta streamlines security and compliance processes in ...

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