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title: 'Sr. Software Engineer at VGS'
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# Sr. Software Engineer at VGS

- **Company:** VGS
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $170k–$215k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/verygoodsecurity/8ea0979b-8ebd-45b6-9e88-7f1f87700d65

## Job description

## About VGS

VGS is building the trust infrastructure for a new era of commerce. As commerce becomes agentic, payments are increasing dramatically in volume, speed, and complexity, and the companies driving that shift need a foundation they can fully trust.

That's where VGS comes in. We're the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most innovative AI and Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs to power modern payments and agentic commerce. We store more than 9 billion tokens and process more than 10 billion monthly interactions, touching a third of all e-commerce. That scale isn't incidental. It's why leading companies embed our universal token vault and credential management platform directly into their stack, taming the complexity of payment data so they can move faster.

Come build the platform that enables modern payments for the world's largest companies. We're helping businesses unlock new possibilities in an industry that never stops moving. And that takes exceptional people.

Trusted Engineering That Matters

Engineering at VGS

VGS is building the platform powering agentic commerce and global payments infrastructure. VGS Engineering is the pillar that supports that vision. We create a platform that is an indispensable, ubiquitous component of our partners' payments and security infrastructure. We build and operate high-scale, reliable, and resilient systems that manage mission-critical payment data across the globe. We don't just participate in the payments ecosystem; we power it.

Our Environment & Culture

- Modern Tooling as Leverage: We value speed and impact. To ensure nothing slows you down, we arm you with a highly consistent modern stack (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Java, TypeScript, Python) and world-class AI-augmented SDLC tooling. We strip away the friction so you can focus on the problems that demand creativity and judgment.

- Ownership of Outcomes: Scaling global payments infrastructure requires individuals who take personal ownership of outcomes from day one. We look for builders who combine high agency with deep strategic alignment; channeling their urgency and relentless iteration into what matters most.

- Mission-Critical Accountability: We power payments infrastructure for global market leaders, making system trust and integrity our core deliverable. We don't treat compliance (PCI, SOC2, ISO27001), security patching, and platform maintenance as administrative overhead—we engineer them with first-class product discipline.  In payments infrastructure, reliability is not background work, it’s part of what customers buy.

Learn More: See how our engineering practices drive trust and innovation in our[official blog](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/blog/) and our[reliability practices](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/ras).

## About the Role

As a Sr. Software Engineer, Payments Quality, you will serve as a key technical practitioner and quality champion on our Payments Engineering team. You will take ownership of setting, building, and enforcing world-class quality standards across our core payment systems. In this role, you will write software for robust AI-assisted quality strategies covering end-to-end automated regression suites and high-concurrency performance and load testing.

Working closely with feature development engineers, Tech Leads, and Product Management, you will ensure our mission-critical, high-throughput payment platform and applications operate with zero downtime and flawless accuracy. Rather than relying on manual QA or traditional top-down testing scripts, you will leverage AI-native engineering methodologies and integrate test automation across the entire SDLC. You will also be building emulators for external systems, such as card networks and other partner integrations. We are looking for hands-on builders who refuse to settle for the status quo, hate manual friction, and take immense pride in fortifying enterprise-grade financial systems for scalability, reliability, and security.

## What You'll Do

- Architect and Embed Quality Benchmarks: Own the overarching quality strategy for Payments Acceptance, building automated guardrails so seamlessly into our pipelines that rigorous end-to-end validation happens automatically, without slowing down feature teams, accelerating release cycles.

- Drive Performance & Stress Testing: Architect and execute high-concurrency load, stress, and latency testing to stress-test payment pipelines under extreme transaction volumes. You own the mission of ensuring our platform never drops transactions or degrades in latency during peak periods..

- Pioneer AI-Native Software Engineering focused on Quality: Actively integrate AI-assisted developer tools and agentic workflows into test creation, synthetic data generation, and automated edge-case analysis to multiply testing velocity. Build high performance emulators for external systems.

- Deep Observability & Incident Prevention: Implement robust telemetry and telemetry-driven test environments using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor system behavior under load, driving blameless post-mortems and proactive bug prevention.

- Cross-Functional Velocity & Mentorship: Partner with feature teams to build "Golden Paths" for automated testing, ensuring engineers can validate code rapidly with high confidence. Mentor team members on quality engineering best practices.

## What You Bring

- Ownership in Quality Engineering: 5+ years of software engineering experience focusing on quality engineering, test automation framework design, and performance testing for complex, high-throughput distributed systems.

- Automation & Scripting Mastery: Deep hands-on experience building automated test suites in Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript, with a strong command of REST API testing and microservices validation.

- Performance & Load Testing Depth: Proven track record designing and running performance, stress, and load tests at scale using tools like JMeter, Locust, Gatling, or k6.

- CI/CD & Cloud-Native Toolchains: Direct experience embedding automated quality gates into modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitOps) within containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS) on public clouds (AWS).

- Data & Messaging Validation: Experience testing event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS) and relational/NoSQL databases, ensuring data consistency and transactional integrity under load.

- High-Agency Mindset: An innate drive to eliminate manual friction, proactively seek out edge cases, and acquire whatever missing domain context is needed to solve complex quality challenges end-to-end.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products

- BA/BS degree

- A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment

- Domain expertise in 3DS, Network Tokens, Account Updater, or payment gateway integrations.

- Experience with AI developer tools, LLM-generated test automation pipelines, or synthetic test data generation.

- Practical knowledge of compliance and cloud security constraints (PCI-DSS, SOC2).

## About VGS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: VGS provides a tokenization and credential management platform that secures sensitive payment data for enterprises, enabling PCI compliance and network value-added services.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial Services, Payment Tokenization, Data Security
- Target customers: B2B – Fortune 500 companies, merchants, fintechs, banks, marketplaces, and gaming/hospitality organizations
- Mission or purpose statement: "To transform how sensitive payment data is stored, secured, and used to enable agentic commerce and beyond" [verygoodsecurity.com](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **[Card Management Platform](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)**: Composable, single-API platform that unifies Network Tokens, Account Updater, Card Attributes, and 3DS into one card object.
- **[Vault](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)**: PCI-compliant secure vault for tokenizing sensitive data (card numbers, PII) so it never touches client systems.
- **[Network Tokens](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)**: Randomized codes issued by card networks (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover) that replace PANs to reduce fraud and improve authorization rates.
- **[Account Updater](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)**: Direct network integration that continuously updates card-on-file data to reduce failed transactions.
- **[Card Attributes / BIN Lookup](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)**: Detailed card metadata (beyond BIN) for fraud prevention and payment optimization.
- **[3DS (Three-Domain Secure)](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)**: Security protocol for verifying cardholder identity during online payments.
- **[Account Validation](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)**: Card verification, CVC verification, AVS, and ANI services to confirm account ownership and validity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – USD 35,000,000 (LinkedIn estimate) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/very-good-security)
- **Total Funding**: USD 104,930,000 across 6 rounds [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/very-good-security)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (Series A lead), Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division (Series B lead), Vertex Ventures (Series C lead) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/very-good-security)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 45 billion annual interactions processed globally [verygoodsecurity.com](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/)
  - 7 billion tokens held globally
  - Workforce of 117 employees distributed across 12 countries (including US, Ukraine, Canada, Greece, India)
  - Monthly employee growth of +1.7% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/very-good-security)

## Competitive Advantages
- One of the few providers with **direct network connections** to card networks (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover), enabling the most up-to-date account information and higher authorization rates [verygoodsecurity.com](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)
- **Tokenization-first approach** reduces PCI DSS scope and simplifies compliance for clients
- **Single API** for multiple network value-added services (Network Tokens, Account Updater, Card Attributes, 3DS), reducing integration complexity
- Proven trust with **Fortune 500** organizations and regulated financial institutions

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic Commerce**: Enabling secure, autonomous transactions where intelligent agents initiate, manage, and optimize payments without exposing sensitive data [verygoodsecurity.com](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)
- **Card Management Platform expansion**: Consolidating multiple card services into one interoperable solution
- **Global scalability**: Growing distributed engineering and operations teams to support international clients

## Why Work Here
- **Distributed & flexible**: Remote-first with hybrid options in San Francisco Bay Area; open to candidates across the US and Canada [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/verygoodsecurity)
- **Engineering-centric culture**: 53 out of 117 employees are in technical roles (45%), indicating strong product and engineering investment [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/very-good-security)
- **Impact at scale**: Work on a platform handling 45 billion annual interactions and securing data for the world’s largest enterprises
- **Diverse, international team**: Employees across 12 countries, with significant presence in Ukraine, Canada, Greece, and India
- **Growth opportunities**: Recent headcount growth (+1.7% monthly) and active hiring for roles like Strategic Finance Manager, Staff Accountant, and Senior Manager of Revenue Operations & Analytics

## Sources
1. [verygoodsecurity.com – Homepage](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/)
2. [verygoodsecurity.com – About Us](https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com – VGS Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/very-good-security)
4. [cbinsights.com – VGS Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/very-good-security)
5. [jobs.lever.co – VGS Careers](https://jobs.lever.co/verygoodsecurity)

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