Senior Backend Software Engineer, Vanta
Test Experience
$179-211k
+ Offers Equity
Automated compliance and security provider
Open for applications
Automated compliance and security provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$179-211k
+ Offers Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure the internet and protect consumer data.
Role
Who you are
- Have at least 5 years of backend development
- Have experience with TypeScript, GraphQL, and MongoDB
- Have scaled platform features and/or optimized app performance
- Have a pragmatic approach to problem solving, with iterative execution in mind
- Have experience applying AI in products, or a strong interest in exploring this space
- Have a product-mindset who empathizes with users and is driven to solve their problems
- Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
What the job involves
- 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 Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, and driving complex projects across our technical stack
- 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
- As a Software Engineer on the Test Experience team, you’ll help shape the future of Automated Tests - one of our platform’s most impactful and heavily-used features
- Vanta Tests enable customers to continuously track their compliance and security posture, save valuable time managing GRC programs, and generate critical audit evidence effortlessly
- You’ll operate at the intersection of platform infrastructure and user experience
- Scaling infrastructure to match Vanta’s rapidly growing customer base
- Building out our next generation Tests data architecture
- Optimizing app performance for Vanta’s most visited pages
- Enhancing customization and visibility across test inputs, logic, and results
- Integrating cutting edge LLM tools and AI agents into the full Tests lifecycle - from creation to remediation
- Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
- Lead high impact projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
- Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth
- Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve and review their security posture
- Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow
Our take
The security auditing process is usually very time-consuming, taking hours to complete, and it is often difficult for start-ups to invest time into such a process. Yet, the benefits of security accreditation are enormous, mainly as many such businesses are working globally and need ways to demonstrate security compliance to one another. Vanta works specifically with start-ups to help them complete and pass security audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
The company is a compliance portal and security monitoring platform that businesses use to assess their risk levels. Vanta carries out a pre-audit of a company's digital security and highlights areas that need to be worked on before a full analysis of all threats is carried out. Other businesses such as Datadog or PagerDuty offer similar security monitoring services, but Vanta monitors its customers throughout the year, allowing any issues to be identified and addressed early on.
Vanta has found a valuable cybersecurity niche within the giant SaaS market. Companies such as Lattice, Clubhouse, and Calm are all customers, demonstrating a growing trend for companies to manage their cybersecurity proactively, which Vanta should be able to take advantage of to further grow and develop into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Jul 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $503m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Christina Cacioppo
(CEO)Worked in Investment at Union Square Ventures, before becoming a Professor at the School of Visual Arts. Co-founded Nebula Labs, and worked in Product Management at Dropbox.
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