Staff Software Engineer, Product Platform

At Vanta, our 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. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

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 product monitors the security posture for thousands of companies, pulling tens of millions of API calls of data per day, pushing information from hundreds of thousands of laptop agents, and running tests against that data continuously to identify potential security threats. Our frontend infrastructure and tooling need to stay ahead of exponential growth in our customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to provide a strong foundation for our frontend stack and enable our infrastructure to scale with our business. You will also drive complex projects across our technical stack and mentor our talented engineering team. 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 Staff Software Engineer at Vanta:

Vanta’s Product Platform team’s mission is to enable Vanta teams to efficiently build products and experiences for our customers. With a full stack focus, you will tackle challenging and highly impactful user facing challenges that have a company-wide impact. You and your team empower other Vanta engineers to leverage cutting-edge technologies and best practices to make Vanta more performant and scalable on a platform level. Example projects include creating a foundation for enabling fine-grained authorization across the entire product, creating Vanta’s first centralized task feed and working cross-functionally to ensure our billing platform scales with the needs of the business.

•  You will also:

  • Hands-on lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale

  • Lead design reviews and communicate constraints to ensure we are making the right trade-offs

  • Advocate for product quality and collaborate with product engineering teams on cross cutting features

  • Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation

  • Collaborate with Security to ensure Vanta’s platform implements best practices for customer data

  • Collaborate with Engineering Leadership to build and execute the engineering strategy to expand the quality, scalability, and reliability of Vanta’s codebase

  • Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members

How to be successful in this role:

• Have 8+ years of experience with full stack development, delivering customer facing components that are used by multiple product teams

• Prior experience on a platform team

• Served as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions

• Built successful SaaS product foundations for both startup and enterprise users 

• Upleveled teams of engineers by mentoring and leading by example

• Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action

What you can expect as a Vantan:

• Industry-competitive compensation

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends

• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility

• 401(k) matching

• Flexible work hours and location

• Open PTO policy

• 11 paid holidays in the US

• Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security.From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. 

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.