Salesforce Platform Engineer

Vanta•,

7d•$128,000 - $151,000•Remote

About The Position

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Salesforce Platform Engineer at Vanta, you will build the developer experience and deployment foundation that our Salesforce engineering team relies on every day. You'll establish modern CI/CD practices, harden our release pipeline, instrument our platform with observability, feature flags, and get our codebase ready for AI-assisted development workflows. Reporting to the Lead of Salesforce Architecture, you'll own this domain end-to-end during an initial 9–12 month buildout, after which the role evolves into a 50/50 split between continued Platform/DX ownership and traditional Salesforce Engineering. The Business Systems team owns the platforms and infrastructure that GTM teams rely on daily. We build and maintain Salesforce, integration workflows, data pipelines, and automation that help Vanta scale while delivering exceptional customer experiences. As Vanta continues to grow, your work will directly enable that growth by building systems that support increasing complexity and volume. You'll bring deep, hands-on Salesforce Platform Engineering experience — the kind that only comes from having lived inside SF release pipelines, Gearset, sandbox management, and Apex testing in production. You understand the quirks of the SF platform and how it diverges from traditional software platform work. You'll work on challenging problems involving release safety, developer productivity, test data management, and preparing our environment for AI-assisted development workflows. This role balances foundational Platform work upfront with cross-functional collaboration as the team adopts the standards you put in place.

Requirements

5+ years of Salesforce engineering experience, including hands-on Salesforce Platform Engineering in production
Hands-on experience with Gearset, Salesforce DX, and Git-based deployment workflows
Proven experience defining and enforcing branching strategies, code review standards, and release processes for Salesforce orgs
Strong understanding of Apex and LWC testing frameworks, including how to drive test coverage, fast deployments, and reliability at scale
Experience managing Salesforce sandboxes or scratch orgs, including refresh strategy and seeding with realistic test data
Familiarity with feature flag patterns and progressive delivery on Salesforce
Experience implementing observability — logging, monitoring, error tracking — for Salesforce or comparable platforms
Working knowledge of Apex, Lightning Web Components, and declarative automation (Flows) — you'll be writing feature code in the 50/50 phase
Strong understanding of Salesforce best practices including governor limits, bulkification, and design patterns
Strong communication skills with the ability to bring a team along on new standards and practices
Curiosity about AI-assisted development and how to make a SF codebase a great place for those workflows
Open to using AI to amplify your skills and strengthen your work — demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

Nice To Haves

Salesforce certifications (Platform Developer I/II) are a plus but not required

Responsibilities

Design and implement modern CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce using GitHub and Gearset, including branching strategy, automated deployments, and release gating
Establish engineering standards across the SF team: peer review, linting, testing frameworks, branch hygiene, and code quality enforcement
Implement feature flag infrastructure for safer rollouts and progressive delivery on the Salesforce platform
Prepare our repository and tooling for AI-assisted development workflows (harness engineering, evals, automated review)
Build and maintain sandbox and scratch org management processes, including automated seeding of representative test data so developers can work productively
Instrument observability — logging, monitoring, alerting — across our Salesforce environment so we can detect and diagnose issues quickly
After the initial 9–12 month buildout, contribute as a Salesforce engineer building features in Apex, LWC, and Flow alongside continued ownership of the Platform/DX domain
Champion Platform Engineering best practices, testing, and release discipline with teammates

Benefits

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!