# Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity

**Company:** [Vanta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vanta)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $195k – $229k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** OIDC, SAML, SSO, RBAC, Distributed Systems, Data Modeling, Backend Development, Authentication, Authorization, Platform Services
**Posted:** 2026-05-07

> Leads complex backend projects on the Identity team, designing scalable identity primitives for agentic capabilities, enforcing permissions, and ensuring auditable actions. Requires 8+ years backend experience, strong auth/authz knowledge (OIDC/SAML/RBAC), and distributed systems expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable business and team scaling
- Collaborate with Security to implement best practices for customer data
- Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and guide trade-offs
- Act as a cultural beacon, mentor junior team members
- Make tradeoffs considering business priorities, user experience, and technical foundation
- Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality

## Requirements

- At least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
- Strong knowledge of authentication protocols (**OIDC**, **SAML**) and identity federation (**SSO**), or authorization frameworks (**RBAC**, policy-based access control)
- Experience building platform services that scale across multiple teams
- Strong data modeling skills for systems with complex relationships
- Experience solving distributed systems challenges around performance and security
- Success with complex technical migrations that maintain system stability
- Security-focused mindset and understanding of enterprise security practices
- Have led technical projects spanning months
- Work well in environments valuing decisive action
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with engineers
- Interest in contributing to engineering culture
- Open to using AI responsibly to amplify skills

## Nice-to-Haves

- Interest in agentic capabilities, permission checks, and attribution models for autonomous agents

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