Senior Security Engineer, Vanta
$227-267k
+ Equity
Agentic trust platform
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Agentic trust platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$227-267k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re someone who has high initiative and enjoys problem solving while having impact at a high-growth company, we would love to hear from you!
- A track record of independent ownership of areas of responsibility
- Experience with threat modeling, red teaming, penetration testing, or other means of identifying security issues
- Experience with software development and the ability to read code to identify security issues
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with deep developer empathy
- Highly organized project management skills
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
What the job involves
- As a Senior Security Engineer at Vanta, you’ll own projects with impact across the business to help us run an efficient and highly effective security team. The security team at Vanta ensures that we are a trustworthy steward of sensitive data
- We also contribute subject matter expertise to the product, sales, marketing, support, and engineering functions, given the nature of our business
- You’ll join Vanta’s Security organization, which provides essential security operational services, is directly involved in the software development process and building tools to make it easy for developers to ship products securely, sets policies and standards regarding enterprise-wide security requirements, and offers advisory services to enable our business to thrive while effectively managing risk
- Participate in team exercises to identify potential security risks, including threat modeling and tabletop scenarios
- Contribute to complex prioritization discussions around which risks are the most important to solve next
- Plan projects to address the risks we prioritize, and coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders across the company to execute those projects
- Build maintainable programs to implement operational excellence where ongoing work is needed to achieve our goals (e.g. vulnerability management)
- Partner with engineering teams to architect secure software, address security concerns, and build a strong security culture
- Build, customize, and run tools to increase the maturity of our security program without adding undue friction to the company’s operations
- Support ongoing bug bounty and penetration testing programs
- Establish and maintain a network of security champions
- Understand security knowledge gaps of the development organization and help to deliver training to address gaps
- Provide input into architectural discussions to enable teams to innovate in a secure and repeatable manner
Our take
The security auditing process can be time-consuming, making it difficult for businesses (especially startups) to undertake. Yet, the benefits of security accreditation are enormous, especially as many businesses are working globally and need ways to demonstrate security compliance to one another.
Vanta works alongside businesses of any size, from startup to enterprise, to help them complete and pass security audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Its AI-powered platform handles compliance, risk management and auditing, as well as permissions and trust-based analytics - making it a one-stop-shop for customers to shore up their security and prove trust when they need to.
The company has raised considerable funding and earned a valuation of over $4 billion, which highlights both its rapid growth and strong market position. Backed by a talented leadership team and a growing customer base, Vanta looks set to continue its upward trajectory and build a lasting, sustainable business. Testament to this, in 2026 it announced it had crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue.
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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: $500.2m
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
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Christina Cacioppo
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Vanta in 2017, Christina worked in Product Management for Dropbox. They were also a Professor at the School of Visual Arts and worked on the Investment Team at Union Square Ventures.
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