Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Our Senior Staff Software Engineers identify key strategic technical initiatives, deliver significant value to our customers and our business, and set the tone for engineering excellence and culture across the company. In this role you'll accomplish this by architecting and building scalable and secure features, and diving deep into hard complex problems with high ambiguity. You'll make an impact by accelerating product development and creating a consistent experience for Vanta customers!

Vanta’s mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Our product integrates deeply with the services that present security risk to a company, pulls and analyzes data from those sources, and surfaces potential security threats to our customers in real time with guidance to remediate them.

Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for identifying key strategic technical initiatives that impact our entire engineering team and deliver significant value to our business. You will set a high bar for engineering culture and excellence, and your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. 

Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company.

Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us!

What you’ll do as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Vanta:

• Identify and solve complex, high-impact problems, leading projects with multiple cross functional stakeholders, engineering leaders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business

• Set technical direction impacting our entire engineering team, from critical systems and core product abstractions to developer productivity and hold a high bar for quality across engineering

• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js). 

• Work on deeply ambiguous problem areas, and will tackle larger more long term challenges for the company

• Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative …